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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  've mostly been enjoying myself. I am, by the by, back home in South Bend. I ... Period. As holidays go, I'd say Spring Break falls somewhere in the high ... feels like home. But on one level, I've come to realize South Bend is only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping in actual huts. It was foggy and when it rained it was absolutely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• 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 / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in ... colleagues. I promised the student I would link to the latest ZigZag video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  swiped into the subway and in June, I saved a whopping $4 by buying the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• 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 ... check-in. However, if you take the MBTA (Logan -> Silver Line to South

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

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  dozen other MIT students in South Wales, I was the only MIT student in North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  'd had the money, I would have taken a cab, but the three dollars in my ... student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I think my soul is still roaming around the south of France. Anyone have five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  junior. Pounds will graduate from Crystal Lake South High School in June ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  affect our reading of "fiction"? In any other context, this chat would get ... . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  logo. This was before we knew that the internship would be in-person. We ... Park. And on the Discord server us interns were in, I looked for others ... , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... workload, I braced myself for this weekend—I knew I would be [annotation note="I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would live there (I don’t). I gawked at nerdy shirts at the COOP, which I would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  I would go on to China. Rather than be homeless in Boston, it was time ... there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... I resisted getting Starbucks. In any case, right when I was beginning

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006