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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... wanted to crochet organs and then affix them to humans. I thought it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I ... to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months now that, once I graduated, I'd move to New York and would have to find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it ... in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... original Oreos, but I would never buy them instead of the original"; even ... tier (not good enough to buy, but I would eat them if offered): vanilla

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year ... once, and he asked if he could use them in lecture. I granted permission ... seriously. Freshman year would have been a lot more difficult for me if I hadn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... 's miniCooper, and installed it in our room. (I am unfortunately not kidding ... , I love the beach, so I figured this would make me happy. But the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... vhs player. I have a habit of buying/getting things that I don’t need

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  begin with.  I wasn’t planning on buying anything in particular, but then ... song is so well written and there’s so much raw emotion in it. I would ... of them was in my hands, so I had to buy it. I’m not sure what I’ll do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Outstanding Bloggership (not in that order): I would randomly call a random ... I would include him in my project, which would immediately be ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... time today I'd walked at least fifteen minutes in the complete wrong

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  seat in our car. i would sit in the backseat and obsessively watch the ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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