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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... - YOU HAVE A PHONE IN HERE??"), because most people have cell phones, which is a lot more efficient. But here are things you SHOULD bring: 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... 3 seems pretty cool.” I guess for most people, it’s not such a hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... . 41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the ... thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ’ll call U, and my return flight to the Philippines had a connection through

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this ... , and Fridays are a lot less crazy. This is by design -- I like smushing a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... semester, I am ultimately unburnt. Just lightly toasted with a warm golden ... were: writing a first author paper on my UROP work helping run the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  the heady ecstasy of MIT materializing out of an abstract dream into a ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life ... paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016