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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot.  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  Squirrel Nut Zippers) in the city. Sadly, many of those have moved; NECCO ... V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... . I hope many of you will check out a production in your town this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  most of their food preparation in a “commissary” (sort of like a shared kitchen) -- not inside the truck! 2. The city of Boston requires food trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  some museums in the near future. You can watch my first day of NYC life ... ] Overall, I am really falling in love with the city. Granted, I am getting a very glamorized idea of it since I am living in the Financial District

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  Random and is a general supermarket. Prices can be kind of high, but I ... . Another thing -- if you plan to buy a lot of groceries, you can do one of ... farmer's market in the city on weekend mornings. You can get great deals on

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

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook ... the best version of myself I can be. [caption id ... "world's smallest" Trader Joe's across the river in Boston (which I would

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

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  lot of optimism. I have a lot of optimism.In my first attempt at ... the data right in front of me. I could no longer say to my mom, "No ... in Boston will stay horrible, I can better do my part by defaulting to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  head down for about 24 hours of total domination. In the past, when I ... demolished, monkey skeletons were found in the rafters. I got this info from ... . The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  like Elvis, but.... Here I am with my very own personal Clay. Sort of ... wrappers. (I'm not making this up.) ----- CityDays is an optional ... of MIT's Cross Country team, so he can afford the calories, and he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to ... ! Wicked was definitely the highlight! As students, my friends and I can buy ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... Boston right at sunset showed me a view of the city I had never seen before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... . Teenagers in Scotland can get hold of booze so long as they have a tall

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  so much of this "I want I want I want" spending that can happen before ... know (knew?) absolutely nothing about cameras so I put in the effort of ... Livescribe (three jobs!? what am i, crazy???). I work for SmartCities in the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  ’m studying in my room. As a high schooler, I daydreamed of this often. Opening ... of a city when you’ve spent practically your entire life in a small ... something to remember. I can’t tell how I feel about this. The narrative of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... designing a train system in a rapidly growing city. If it wasn't already clear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... center filled with decorative buildings. Yida in the lobby of City Hall ... Jamboree in Quebec City. We spent three days in Quebec City and four days in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed ... world where I’m not absorbed in every hour of the day; I’m glad that come ... (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... partake in everything new that I could, to funnel all of this energy I had ... heard that thought before? I think it’s scrawled in marker on one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  another group of guests that Morimoto "lives in the city and usually visits ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005