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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... 4,050 sq. in. of plush mattress. Here, I get a squeaky 3,120, with a ... in bliss for extended periods of time. Here? We don't have bathtubs, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  what kinds of feelings to inspire in other people. can you be more ... really the point of this post though. i’ve been living in generalities for ... in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... , one of the first cities to open up to foreign investment in the 1980s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  of that nature: 1. I don't think Timur really has wireless in his ... -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  still smokes! Heck, in Italy they're even more direct. I saw a pack of ... basically just said, "Smoking kills." Speaking of things that can kill you in ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... 's definitely in the minority of computing choices. What you'll notice about MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities ... description of noble tea in the boba review post that i will inevitably make ... missing functionality in a lot of places. for example, i live right in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  river, my favorite part of Boston. These are the trees I can see from my ... city trees and river trees, so I turned off into the heart of Cambridge ... and walking, I traveled through God-knows-where in Cambridge and Boston

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... . Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  absolutely the best of luck. I'll be in Maine with Adam skiing this weekend ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in ... the 70s and has been in the finance industry for numerous of years. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  interned in the city, I simply revisited the street where I lived and took in ... chaotic in India (as expected), but I guess you can't have everything. And ... , as I met a number of people on the train and joined passengers in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Sandusky will live the rest of his life in jail. I can't believe that all ... , the safest small city in America, and one of the best places to live or ... compass. But he did. I hope you can understand why many people are in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never ... application to be a volunteer member of an advisory group in my city, and never ... win, though I concede the meager pool of opportunities sought (can

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa ... 's associated with moving out of Boston (potentially) forever. I can't count the ... rid of my belongings, which felt odd since I've collected so much in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  day, and all I can say is it's kind of crazy how I am literally alone in ... that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of ... /20/21 One of the many flyers that can be found posted all over the infinite. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in New York City, is walking. I daresay most people walk. For example ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  separate entry. Something Borrowed... All I can think of for this section ... million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice ... , MI; Milwaukee, WI; Greater Chicagoland, IL and the greatest city in the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  forgot to bring it in and now school's out. I can get a hold of my guidance ... the AP and asked if I can join Intel in my junior year and he replied no ... I send that score in as one of the 3 required for MIT admission? 2) I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I ... and don't like it, it only costs a fraction of what I make in an hour ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022