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• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... things cost adult-living-in-a-major-city prices. On one hand, I want to go full-crazy I'm-totally-living-in-like-Friends-or-Sex-and-the-City and go

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  most of MIT by just staying in that bubble. Joining class group chats can ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  in the city. It was nice of him and though I didn't see him again ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... . I took the generic photo in front of the Microsoft sign. We mostly

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing ... , and I'll be off to Hartford, Connecticut. You can view the entire ... questions as we can and do our best to answer every question fully. I've found

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... grandpa shared an anecdote of his childhood with me that I think really ... I first came to MIT, I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but who

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  waste of time if they're all full! I'd much rather buy another road in ... , MIT has a sense of humor, no doubt in my mind, I'm going there. Since ... of the requirements. Luckily this wasn't an issue I ran in to. I went

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... last two weeks I was in Seattle, the whole city was covered by a pungent ... until halfway through August, I could picture myself living in the city

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  really great semester class-wise. I hope I can get three of these classes ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... GREAT! I've been spending A LOT of time with Rory. I've grown a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... case you are wondering, the admissions officer of whom I speak of is me. In the words of the incomparable sage of Long Beach, Snoop Dogg "He is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  I've been living in New York City, in a cruft house named LoTaD, short ... Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... . Different in an unpredictable way. I'd shaken out the initial thought of I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... pieces of scrap paper. Finally, he looked up and said, "Well, we can pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  . MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... favorite classes I’ve taken so far, though, and much of that has to do ... for many years to come. I was part of the transportation group. Each day

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... of power, networks and personal freedom in the city. Combines lectures ... favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... , plus maybe one of the controllers. I have no idea what this analogy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange, because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let ... time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can ... something you can’t imagine you ever lived without. I’m kind of writing this ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all ... separation from the CEO of Amazon. I have jumped in a lake wearing jeans and, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  of history, I get interesting answers. “Some of it we’re taught in ... you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... I wanted to highlight some of the amazing projects I’ve seen in this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  in New York, oh that concrete jungle where dreams are made of. When I ... -- a 10 day program for high schoolers in the city of Shenzhen. They went ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013