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  Happiness in threes

  

  the city today, and I was proud of myself to discover that I actually ... and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  . Unfortunately, I can no longer drink the boba that’s normally sold in MIT ... to play guitar in junior year of high school because I was too shy to ... 've met a lot of cats in East Campus (and in life in general, I guess), but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as something that could buy X amount of Y. I told her I always jokingly see money in units of XBox 360s (a trip to Istanbul? that's like, 9 XBox 360s

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of ... Tuesday is the night I do pub trivia with my friends. One of last night ... . Q. I'll provide a country and its largest city by population. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... . the chicken coop in the backyard. the housemates who i've come to know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  ] Woke up at 10 am to continue puzzling. Lots of cities open. Continuing to ... in the basement of E18. HQ will be staying open for at least several hours so teams can continue to call in answers and meet with us. If you

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my ... play tic-tac-toe. I entered it in a science fair and won a prize. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  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 ... birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  serve. I wrote huddled in the back of my car, an orange minivan with a hatchback, in the middle of a Walmart parking lot. I'd hung string lights ... ="71300" image2="71311" /] That night I was staying up in my car, wary of falling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I ... acknowledge it. Instead of getting up, I lie in bed, check my email, and read ... book it out of Next House as fast as I can. This is usually a ten

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  . Spotify holds such a place in my heart that I’ve said it’s one of my ... song came up on my Discover Weekly one day in 2019 and I was reminded of ... people here, with brains that function in ways that I can barely comprehend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart ... Best Buy and Office Depot have lots of student deals for your laptops. I ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  if I’ve heard of the program before. This is kind of like forums in ... ? Is this the area of study I’m interested in? Specifically on the MSc ... labs breaking ground in topics I was excited to work on in most of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  also meant that I semi-regularly appeared in the door of my old UROP ... doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... academia should look like and of who belongs in it. Once, in high school, I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... responsible.) Adam and I watched the latest epidode of Lost, ordered dinner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for ... all the genres of people. I dressed in mostly all black, with one non ... period, and I got a decent chunk of my best studying done in detention and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside ... just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... 'm going to answer in a hodgpodge some of the straightforward requests I got ... school we covered most of the material. I took AP Chem in junior year, so I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports ... . Sighing, I resigned myself to waiting in line to use one of those machines ... left. I proceeded to one of those “Self Check-In Counters” that my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009