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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  never saw action. The British were driven out of the city in March 1776 ... This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned ... grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  incredible. Just having the ability to be present in the city I love alongside ... like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... portrait of my UROP as a young man, but I got so involved writing the stream-of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to MIT, one of my concerns was that if I graduated from here, I'd be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... one of CCD and CMOS yields better image quality. I personally can’t tell ... Swedish Academy of Sciences[/caption] An Integrated World Of course, I can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  United States for about two weeks, whereas I spent all of this summer in ... 've never had an In-N-Out burger you can't even begin to understand what I ... college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the ... architecture less. In fact, I actually really like and admire the process of ... commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  been building since Thursday. Since I hadn't been in charge of the ... that I've had in a very, very long time - it was great to see all of East ... Bar feels like the end of an era :( can’t wait to be in Nisha’s shoes in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted ... inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  windmill. I really wish I had taken a picture of it so I could convey to you ... the town of Hull. "Why not just build three windmills then?" I asked. We ... with the Boston Phoenix last year. So, in groups of five we somehow made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  use. I had never lived in a place with any kind of public transportation ... got to explore the city in a way I never had before and share the ... them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  : *eye roll* Not all of SD is farmland; I’m from Rapid City, which is in the ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in ... cultural zeitgeist in South Dakota; I know a lot of people at MIT who have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods ... wanted to drink something with a taste, I opened one of my like 50 cans of pineapple. So, I mean, I totally ran out of all those, and had to buy some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  .60, 8.01 open-notes: everything in course 10, 7.06 Mitra said: "I can say ... 18.01. I can personally vouch for both parts of this statement, because ... usually in such good condition that you can't even really tell what's wrong

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... ! NARUTO! Ok, so I watched Naruto a bit in undergrad, but then I kind of fell ... bloggers can do that for you in the comments. For now, I’ll just tell you

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... other things, but mostly taking in the quiet of the city at night. Amber ... day off after the last day of classes, I let myself sleep in. I spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why ... i wonder if i ever will perhaps this is all in vain, some kind of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... I am writing this from an internet cafe just outside Lusaka, Zambia ... just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007