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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  TechCash. By which I mean your parents can pay for it. MacGregor also ... single rooms. MacGregor may not look like much from the outside (it opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last days with ... that’s accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right thing to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  other questions, as always, please feel free to ask. Does it cost extra ... muscle. It does cost extra money to stay in the dorms over the summer ... knowledge, it's not a great deal harder, but it does involve being sure you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... it to Market Basket eventually. No happy ending here. I’m sorry. We

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  enough time. Do you see how much that is? It’s so much! I’m really not ...   I have a conversation with my Anxiety. This year I learned that it’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  to think about how long it takes for academic research to become ... GlobalFoundries: Q: “From an R&D perspective, how does industry ... sectors, how does the pressure for immediate commercial outcomes influence

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  . That $20 in tech cash they give you? Use it right away for non-food (buy ... perspective! Go out, see it all. Your host tell you East Campus is weird and ... -CPW-rant that the previous item became, it's important enough to be repeated here

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30 ... "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at ... to it and how best to react. My first layoff helped me put the employer

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  I started telling my mom about MechE, how I’d grown with it and how ... intrinsically liked MechE for a long time, and how I chose that I didn’t want to ... it around a bit. I wasn’t sure how well it fit me anymore. I think that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... cash, an iPhone, a set of keys tagged with the apartment address, and a DSLR camera were gone. It was an incredibly smooth and strangely

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , special because it was short and seasonal things only lasted so long. Life ... Ethiopia how to front the cash for the grants you received which are all ... !” And what does any of it at all mean when in America, stranger men

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  reminder that her actions are what make her an individual. What does it mean ... . He’s my best bud; not sure how he’s related.  About Math It was my ... exactly is Genshin? / How do you play Genshin? I’m glad you asked! Genshin

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... "] “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the ... activities, so I didn’t participate in it, but seeing how much fun everyone had

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  how AWESOME we are! Sadly, it all had to come to an end and we were ... bag. with stuff in it Ben and I went to Dominoes instead, cashing ... .) I’m mildly obsessed with the internet. Actually, mildly is putting it

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  and MIT would probably throw some cash my way to get it started. I also ... , "Are you a CALTECH student." I couldn't believe it. How crazy! This guy ... teach this one girl from New York how to do it and when the opportune

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  confident in its future with Fukuzawa Yukichi's son "at the cash-box” (i.e. as ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... is home and nothing will ever change that. It was the new bloggers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  projects. It’s a relief that I’m staying with someone I know, since this is ... undergrad, it felt weird. But I’ll leave post-graduation feelings for another ... favorite shows ever. It's like my neuroses got turned into an HBO show

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... discounted Dine-Out Boston menus, so that even cash-pinched college students ... . Restaurant Week wasn’t just a chance to stuff ourselves with amazing food—it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  most expressive photograph I have ever created. And that's how it ... -Georges again for the first time ever. (If this is in fact how I phrased it, Jess ... dizzying altitude near the pinnacle of haute cuisine. It's so haute, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  many associate with its long history of oil spills and environmental ... you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... start projects. As a result, whenever there was no progress, it was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018