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Winter Is Coming

Winter Is Coming

The trick to dealing with New England weather

March 12, 2017 | Brandon S.

“California native picks MIT for the beautiful Boston weather.” This is a headline that you will never see in an MIT advertising brochure. Whenever I go back home to visit family in sunny SoCal, the most common reaction I get from people when I tell them I go to school here is, “Ooooh, so you […]

Did You Walk from Korea?

Did You Walk from Korea?

Troubles and misunderstandings that I had on my first arrival to MIT

March 10, 2017 | Jaehwan K.

Arriving in from the sweltering heat of a typical Korean summer, the crisp cool weather and matching blue sky which Boston greeted me with was the perfect weather for my start as a new graduate student. And as a graduate student should be, I decided to be frugal and take the T (subway of the […]