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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Cambridgeside Galleria. I would suggest letting someone (a roommate, perhaps?) in ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII ... . Personally, I came in with a meager 27 units of credit (and didn't pass out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... and the walk-ins area. (Normally there are people around, but I took ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of ... lived in East Campus, I would walk 20 minutes here because their prices ... are full. I have my own big cabinet, and baby... it's like Tetris in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  past summer. In a different world, I would probably wind up being a ... . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the ... had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.ebaumsworld.com/tags/arthur-ganson/. His website has a lot of great pictures as well. I’d encourage all of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  'm not as eloquent on these topics in Spanish as I would be in English, but ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... . But before my would-be opponent and I could find a suitable table

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in Sinhalese, and I would start imitating them and we would all laugh.” But when ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the ... 's confident that the proteins would be ripped apart and rendered harmless by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  they would do, including: Create a blacklist of banned websites comparable in its effect to the Great Firewall of China Kill websites that ... noticed that the first link I posted in this blog entry was a link to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  engage in my social media ritual without the guilt I usually would have if ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... running shorts to make trying out the new shoes easier. I thought I would just walk around in them, so I thought, "Okay, whatever." The guy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... their lentil dal. Over March Break, I met my parents in LA, hit up so many ... even so hosed that I gave in and bought takeout: Pepper Sky pad see ew

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• 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 ... my true Midwestern roots. Back when I lived on the prairie, Ma would grill flapjacks and sausages every morning in our sod house while I

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

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  -Japanese fusion cuisine behind an unassuming concrete facade. Since I was dressed in ... the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... that we would be in Philadelphia for the evening... and possibly the next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to use git—which in itself would have justified the summer. I learned a ... I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... lock in my major—meaning I could change direction if I didn’t enjoy my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016