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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... return on your investment. That's great. But money can't just buy integrity

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  taste in music, and I can tell you about all my favorite artists. Maybe ... , you can see above that I'm in Courses 18 and 6-3, which are Mathematics ... I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... anachronistic conceit. I love that, as Alyssa Keiko once wrote in an influential ... idea Sabrina blogged about in the past too.  I've lifted 3-4 days a week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  like to live in the week everything was canceled. I can imagine that if I ... turns out that you can just buy historical weather data in bulk. Here ... . The scale's in Celsius, but you can probably convert to Fahrenheit, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  little thing known as "reality."  I can't help feeling that in some ways ... enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... in my closet, in my room in East Campus, while I did zoom school from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017