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• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... -related musings (as opposed to the completely random posts or deep and sometimes ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... pasty white or what???) Another one of the very first things we did in ... , or allowed them to stay relatively dry after rains because the water

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  , or I just want to sit in all day and cry because of how much there is ... 't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  on rare earth elements, to be brief (more info in website!^^) If you ... checking in, they told me that it was illegal to go to Canada without staying ... to think that I'd never get home in time for Christmas (this happened

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... stylish that Ben had to buy one. We saw some pretty awesome bands ... Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... to finger-paint your windows? In most "respectable" homes, a ... environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  ’t have some great life wisdom to share or huge post-MIT takeaways. Or career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... leaving in the past. Honorable mentions included missing having access to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  awarded in the following categories: -Apple Pie -Apple Cobbler, Crisp, or ... investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours ... The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... here I am. Hello again!  I knew I wanted to write something, but in my ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I ... to hear again. So in honor of my last first day at MIT, here are some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  committing to the grill or [annotation note="The station with 'regular' hot ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... sandwich To toast my sandwiches, I often use the toaster ovens found in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to ... , and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels ... you live? What do you want to major in? Who do you want to be? There

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof ... again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i ... ="the café in lobby 7 used to be peets coffee, and they had the mocha javiva

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can ... ! Unfortunately, when you put in enough work to make a bomb calorimeter stop being a ... ’m cheap, so I decided to take Spanish II in the spring to avoid having to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• FAQ / International applicants

  Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?

  international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which ... Students holding dual citizenship should apply to MIT with their U.S. citizenship status. Students holding non-U.S. dual citizenships may select