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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early last month I made the terrible mistake of taking one of the 8am-10am

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  month when he gave it to me. Fine. I can just use it online, right? After ... you to buy things off its own website? Was there some revolutionary ... I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues ... really wanted to buy some bread. I purchased a meat pie, which cost ... justified my decision to go into every other bakery I encountered and buy more

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  products were worth buying. I’d finally developed a healthy dose of marketing ... personal experience, I can attest to the fact that the faculty members here ... skeptics out there), I can’t say whether or not MIT is unique in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets ... lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want to see this year's full event listing. I only had two final exams this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... watch a livestream. You can also track specific runners on the BAA website

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  website that I've been working on a lot since school got cancelled just ... , and current research projects that you can check out. I also cheated on ... Syndrome, but I cannot explain how satisfying it was to see this website

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  , and buy a normal, two-story house. I will be humble. Everybody says they ... not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... on the side. I will buy a great dane, and call him "Buffalo." I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta ... . But I found out all about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night during my Chinese

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  Table and buy as much as I can hold. Then, I cross the street and enter H ... doing some things. I'm taking a class on prosody, which can be transcribed ... I want to understand it in private. I can see myself settling down

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  living in a double), it does have its perks (I can drink juice from the ... It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can ... of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... become obsolete like a floppy disk. I can hold my reservations about said ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  just a specific flame war. CJ and I wanted to ask the question: “what can ... , here they are. I don’t think I can write anything funnier than the email ... this innocent desk worker. For the life of me, I can't remember who it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , I can’t tell you how huge a fan I am of your work. I actually quoted ... Simmons hall. I’ve even seen some painted as murals on dorm hallways. But ... questions like: “How much Force power can Yoda output?” “What would

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  even thought, hey, everyone will be wearing duct tape. What can I do to ... during CPW), so I can't say much about them. I know a couple of other ... real meal, but it can be kind of hard with a cramped schedule. As I see

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  ," said the owner. "We can reimburse if you want." two As much as I want to ... 's not. The only reason I can withstand living here is because of Rohan and ... group buys, talk about rent, talk about what we need to buy. And I bring

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... looking for help (as both of them can confirm), but by now I have enough ... their own 8x10. You can follow my progress at I Build a Camera (I’m

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... curriculum doesn't work this way just for engineering classes. I can fondly ... buying were relatively cheap, so I totally wanted to barf out when I saw

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• 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

  

  ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015