I have no idea - maybe pop by and ask?

Straight up Union Square Donuts for doughnuts! And Wusong Road in harvard square serves malasadas on their dessert menu.

Trader Joe's is inexpensive too

What about Amazon fresh? Is that cheaper/ more expensive/ convenient?

If you're driving from Cambridge to there, you deserve to be part of traffic.

You’ll need roommates but it’ll be fine if you don’t have other financial commitments. Get some cool roommates and live in Somerville near Porter or Davis, or Central/Cambridgeport. Don’t bother with a car, and if near campus shop at Market Basket and cook a lot and it’ll be ok.

Dj’s market in Dorchester has great paczki! I know that they usually take pre orders for holidays so I would check their website.

They always do this presidents day it's probably one ofv the museums busiest days

This is a non-profit thing in Massachusetts in general. It's not just the colleges.

Dick’s in Medford is large and nice.

Years ago I’d use the BC libraries.

37k a month? No problem, a semester? Go to chelsea

I will be up cycling it!!

I took the T today and didn't give a single thought to traffic.

Does this mean the tokens will change or will they keep the A4CADE / Roxy's engraving?

I was there. School break and a holiday today. The museum said it was their buisest day of the year.

The clutch point not in this thread yet is that you should try to live somewhere near the Market Basket in Union Square Somerville. Groceries are crazy expensive in Mass, and in Cambridge your only other options are Whole Foods and Star Market (which somehow manages to be more expensive than whole foods at times). The exception is Market Basket, which is crazy cheap because they make their money on volume. This is enough to make a real difference in your budget. Can't recommend enough

The Davis Square Runners has a short, slow, run on Tuesday nights.
Website: https://www.dsrunners.com/dsr-run-group/
Sign up for the run at MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/davissquarerunners/events/291344612/

On the weekends SRR (Somerville Road Runners) has a variety of weekend runs one of which is slow (11 min pace). https://www.srr.org/weekend-long-runs

I have run with both and hope to start running with both groups regularly.

State troopers

Staties?

I work at MIT and have to deal with this on the regular. Enforcement is handled differently depending on the department. I work closely with two departments, and one doesn't care, and the other will ask me to contact the restaurant and get the tax refunded if the bill wasn't tax-exempted in the first place. Talk about a pain!

Ride a bike and never worry about this kind of stuff!

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Taxes are weird, and I guess you wouldn't know this if you didn't deal with purchasing or selling. Like, why would a librarian know?

Another weird thing that I learned as a student is that Universities and schools can't charge their students meal taxes. If you go to one of the HUDS cafeterias and look like a student, they'll ask if you are. Say yes, you pay no meal tax.

https://www.mass.gov/directive/directive-10-6-exemption-for-student-meals-under-gl-c-64h-s-6cc

37k before taxes is going to be tough , you’ll definitely have to be splitting with people. After taxes, you’ll probably have 30k so your budget should be ~830 if you’re going by the typical rule that your rent shouldn’t exceed a third of your income.

Most of the people I know are paying over $1000 even with 2 or 3 other roommates.

If you cross the river into Allston, you’ll have batter luck. And you’re super close to Cambridge still!