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  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... , but I’m from a dry place, and good lord, save yourself and either buy or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  I used the Lagrangian on a test in the vain hope that this would amuse ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to read the previous paragraph, in which I describe my 8.022 exam in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  particularly difficult during the month of December. Anything I can't buy in ... applesauce.[/annotation] To be done by whenever really, but I haven't posted in ... planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach ... places in Yosemite, and swapped some old gear I had for other people’s used ... stories we wear." - Worn Wear Buying new stuff is fun. It provides that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  , unsurprisingly, was dormed in Random. I kind of knew I would be placed in Random ... panic.[/annotation] Would it be like a sorority? I don't want to live in a ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... event was so incredibly nice. "I'm here because making friends in your ... better at crocheting. I would come home from a long day at my UROP

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... grocery stores listed in the previous MIT groceries guide, and I’ve scouted

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... Street in historic Old Port. I caught lunch just a few steps away at Mim ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  of confidence which I knew working in tech would bring.  # The last ... ’ in it would reject, we want.” I’d passed a lot of magazines with the ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  . After all, what else would you have said in that situation? Alan: I mean ... stormy. I was visiting Shuli in East Campus one night, and, afterwards ... petty games, Alan. I'm so above petty games, in fact, that in that evening

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... noted, that would be European Pi Day (31/4), but I missed it this year ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... who were different from me. I was always very constant in my emotions ... mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  room just screamed, "Take a nap. NOW!" One thing I did notice in all ... because I'm just in Physics Honors. The room was pretty though. After 30 ... Qichen and Alex pretended to look at something in the sky, while I watched

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... our weekly house clean-up from 11 to 12. After that, I settle in to work. I'll start with the things I know I can finish in one sitting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences ... I've been living on campus, working on finishing my MEng thesis this summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... Allison's new [Video Retailer] Movie Pass in hand, I vacillated between ... it would be a winner, since I had already seen it while rushing one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005