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• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  of classes have "Course Notes," which are sold at the Copy Tech. They ... Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of ... 'll definitely hear of online book exchanges (MIT411.com used to be one of them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of MIT's a cappella groups. Towwards the end of the concert, Lee-Kai '07 ... ? "Army" by Ben Folds Five Great job, Jen '07! Jen is the president of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  Formal This year it was at the State Room which is on the 33rd floor of an ... auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... ourselves as we walked up the catwalk in front of our potential dates. "Bryan

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my ... ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  . Most of the Science Olympiad competitions I went to were hosted at Auburn ... , you devote yourself to four years of study at Georgia Tech, and then you ... Patriots tonight, before they face off against the Seattle Seahawks at the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  house at the intersection of Granite Street and Rockingham Street. I like ... . One bag of tortilla chips. The clerks at Trader Joe's love to chat. A ... a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  at the inside. It contains a twisted bar of aluminum that plugs into an ... about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG Friday Luncheon. A close friend of ESG's 8.012/8.022 Professor Paola, he ... ceased to amaze. But at this point I imagine you're anxious to actually

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... their waitlists. Large waitlist movement at a few schools has ripple effects, requiring longer waitlists at many colleges this year. We're glad

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  coming of Anna's. Let's face it, you can't eat burritos every day, but DD ... palatable (people seem to have strong opinions on both sides of this argument ... convenient options are Peet's at Bosworth's, Starbucks at Steam, and Green

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love ... that I met at CPW or near the beginning of freshman year, but I also have ... what’s in store for you at the institute (out of many other tastes that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  of my biggest reasons for choosing MIT. But back to the scene at hand ... great picture of it at the end of her post here. Unfortunately, the ... (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he ... used to that. I'm used to being one of the smartest students, but at MIT ... beach at night and looking at the stars.' [Cydney Scott / The Post] Corey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  Tuesday, we put a grant proposal together in the span of about two hours at ... “related shenanigans occurring in my wing of Next House at the time”? Well ... cookie content, not pedantic deliberation on the origins of particular

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  winnings of 500%, I will never gamble again in my life. Anyway, I was at ... a full account of my activities at home later on, or maybe not. Anyway ... very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ’ve taken at MIT have had at most 20 pages of writing, and those were for ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the ... pigeons to stuff into those boxes (i.e. friends), then at least two of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  particular. At the beginning of every summer, I feel a particular flash of ... Learned I think it's easy to look at these trackers from all of these ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8 ... of strangers with music. I was totally mortified, at first, but as ... : namely, taking advantage of every resource at hand. In the meantime, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different ... concerns, at least as I saw them back in the spring of 1996: Will I have a ... discovered that there are all kinds of people at MIT, even those that you would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005