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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air ... in my last entry. I wanted to title this entry "Now I'm a little boy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  books around here can't we?" (sorry, Laura, I know you asked other questions...but I'll answer this one first.) Ahh, never spend $700 on books ... comes to worst, buy it from the Coop or Quantum Books, which are the main

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the pronunciation. How would you pronounce it? I, forever, thought it ... told anybody this, but I spent the better part of 3 months agonizing in ... always a luxury students get to enjoy). I've been known to spend an hour in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  in any way, if anything, I believed it would be a hindrance. Truly, I ... , if you told me that I would join a sorority in college, I would laugh ... probably still would not be in a sorority. I don’t know if I would be unhappy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  nations. Each country would agree to buy at least 1,000,000 machines. Later ... I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  the following announcement: I originally became a AAS member in order ... provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... cartographic reality in Boston. Once freshman year, I had gotten my hair cut near

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it. Now, if I worked for Amazon or Google or something, this would not be a ... know (knew?) absolutely nothing about cameras so I put in the effort of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  had warned me): the building numbers make little, or no, sense! I ended ... working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year ... awareness of jobs in higher education, I applied to positions in admissions

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  without any more additional delays I would only be home in Berlin three or ... This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been ... I did a lot of reading and relaxing. That in itself isn't a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  olympiad classes, but I use “swapped” here very loosely. I would still ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  their computers). I would suggest buying a Thinkpad based on a) Price b ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . I drifted in and out of uneasy dreams on the way home, but I think ... ... even though I should have learned it perfectly in 8.022. We also sang ... again. Had I not gone to Six Flags, I would have gone to see the "24-hour

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  , which you can find in better resolution at the website I linked above ... 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

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  . Cash only – there are ATMs in the Stata Center. Also sells pita bread! I buy most of my produce here. Since I live in East Campus, I have enough ... budget, I recommend the food blog Budget Bytes. Where to Buy Groceries On

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  its star. I will, however, say that the Caine's Arcade website is ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the junk yard and the trash and in school recycling bins. But he never got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• 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 ... for so many votes, but in the end it all worked out (I hope!). My prize

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... am as an omnivore. Earlier in the summer I'd do about two meals a day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  , and I started thinking about Naruto and how he would have reacted in my ... it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to ... lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020