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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  healthier, better-tasting and cheaper. AND LOADS OF FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... 'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... and revolutionary one. The field of visual storytelling is really broad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  of our minds. There’s a whole lot of local support for the book, for ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  a website that revealed an entire page of coded words. We decoded the ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it ... wear the same rotation of flannels and sweaters this time of year: to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  a very mild electric shock. I first heard of the phrase pins and ... it, and only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one ... not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program ... of the world"...' and 'Describe the world you come from'), an optional

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with ... different. I am of the opinion that there should be a latency between what we ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  October 8, 1977, the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA was the first sorority on ... aspect of their D9 organizations. Some of the first people Nikayah has met ... there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... "self image", and notice that only ~31% of students think they're in the ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  might be MIT. The time might be the middle of the semester. We’re from the ... Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  and you'll see home:     Fun fact: all of the photos in ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... studies the development of several different types of neurons in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... of the firehose and everything. (Of course, the water was actually from ... [/caption] The firehose analogy captured the imagination of the MIT community

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of ... "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... end: according to the author, an entire eighty percent of well ... definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... ’s working. i am one of the co-directors for hssp, which is an educational

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020