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  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... -mputer.[/caption] I thought that going to MIT would force me to quit my pigeon obsession

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would ... time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition ... spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Dear fellow chompers, A year ago, I was asked: … and in typical hosed ... introduced me to 30 cafes in the Greater Boston area, and since then, I ... caffeine companion in town” and deservedly so. I always mention this cafe

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  organized. I would love to have a file cabinet in my dorm. Is that allowed? Will I be able to find one in campus? (possibly for free?) I would hate ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially ... tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the bombing two years ago, I also ran it for Sean.   ... shot in the line of duty. Carved into the south-facing wall is an epitaph ... killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  focus. I looked at many programs, but in the end decided that IHP would ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks ... that affect cities. I had always expected to study abroad in college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  at the wrong exit and panicked, and did what I would in the States if I ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... thought it would be funny if I rode a bus called "Ladies Dream." I missed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today I’d do a fun post about what’s in my bag (and on my person). The Bag ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  my test instead: While being a little lost in South Boston, I saw the ... Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  spot for the summer, the friendly neighborhood Starbucks. I was in for a ... I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  guest-speakers at the event, when I myself had been a prefrosh sitting in ... place yesterday was Meet the Bloggers! I'd been told that it would be ... Bloggers, I headed to the South Asian Culture Show and caught the second half

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in ... she very very busy? I would love to hear from her, and I guess so would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... thought I’d be now, MIT would be the last place I would have said—if I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  So you all know that I come from South Florida. (And if you didn't, then look! You do now!) In Fort Lauderdale, we don't have seasons. Sure, it gets cold in that wet, drippy way that makes you feel like you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the ... . Today, I'd like to kick off the MIT Admissions World Cup Challenge. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... called himself the “chief”; he would come over, yell something in English

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012