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• 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
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Mac, typed in my credit card info, hit submit, and all of a sudden I had a ... not without a lot of grumbling. In April, as I was getting really ... I smile :) If you're even sort of considering buying a Tesla and you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... and L.L.Bean duck boots are popular.  Since I do a lot of hiking ... apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #Buy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  -down version of what alumni receive. I, along with 100,000+ other MIT grads ... classmates are, and thought I might share some of it with you. This month, I ... , surgical residency in New York City Army Reserve (including tours in Bosnia

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day ... tonight, I noticed that none of them are really appropriate for showing true

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course ... moment one day... I got one song (probably "The Power of Love") stuck in my ... coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  feels dissociative to be in this class. I feel like biochem has a lot of ... because this is my 14th year of school, this is the first time in my life I ... everything in me, I want to try and still do things outside of class as much as

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  -mile of river between us and Boston helps a lot in keeping us and the city ... I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  favorite places in the city, and I have a lot of great memories associated ... really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I ... , and author of "The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I ... aren't rational!) So anyway, I ended up buying a pair of shoes, plus the ... of Sex and the City in which Carrie Bradshaw runs a 5K.) My new

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; in other ways, it’s better.  I’ve been just over a week in this city ... my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... can’t access any of that now. I sit down and try to write about the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... what to buy, and where things are located. I inspect a bag of clementines ... . She did. I can see the city across the river, and it looks different

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of ... . I had no idea how unique certain aspects of my everyday life in the US ... verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the ... one I bought in the old city of Jerusalem, near Al Aqsa mosque. During ... humanities major of some sort. I’ve been sad that at MIT I haven’t dabbled in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  curse word I can think of becomes a filler word in Spanish. I'm not even ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all ... , "ah! I know exactly what you mean, but I can't think of that word either

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant ... the way through my time here. i can’t believe i’m almost 50% of the way

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  . I had the unique privilege of creating my own MIT Blog in my freshman ... wouldn't you know it, I still keep in touch with a few of them. And I would ... , classes, and research. Instead of buying new gadgets, I would save up my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  's not. The only reason I can withstand living here is because of Rohan and ... Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022