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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... lettuce at many of the major grocery stores in the area. At Whole Foods, a ... a store right in the heart of Central Square, [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... . Lulu was one of my TAs - I almost swooned when I made the connection that ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  the gophers that pop out under you out of nowhere. The first semester ... of them crossed out by the grader :'( My first graded quiz/exam at ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  opened my application around mid-summer, which is the start of first ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words ... 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

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run ... the beginning of this semester feels like a blurry, faded memory from years ago, I remember the week of[annotation note="Note: it wasn't MIT I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... First You GO to... Last weekend was the 2022 MIT Mystery Hunt, the world ... , which have a list of each of the teams. Not only can you read all the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  my roommate. We started the first season at the beginning of the summer ... !). But over the course of my first week or so, I found my balance, settled ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , especially around this time of the semester. The rest of this blog post is by ... . You return to the first floor and walk to the other tower. You’re still ... coming out of it: Pisces. One of the branches coming off that is Felidae

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  felt guilty as soon as they spilled over onto the second page of the blog ... Anthony R. '09 A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel ... patterns from the pattern language of my life by Natasha B. '16 Repilot by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... organization that encompasses the sorority side of Greek life at MIT. Panhel is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  two types of first-generation children. The first kind didn’t appreciate ... would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  the water the whole time. It would be like collecting a group of people ... broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very ... decision."]meeting students[/annotation] and seeing a slice of the worlds you ... take a break from the constant movement of recruitment travel and sit in

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... photos of a Malaysian baby with the words "I'M WATCHING YOU" scrawled ... extra cautious of all Malaysian babies in my way. As this week the spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  whole other hydrology lesson, but the core of the issue is that, the water ... source, causing the first source you built to fail. Of course, there ... water puns for you? x)) <3 I made a small video of the whole experience

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018