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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  on this one, just because a) it's a fun way to get to know your ... since you can just store them on your computer, but it's nice to have some ... (gosh those are fun) - to talking about your homesickness, or how to use

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

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  conference tournament champion.  To get our hands on that trophy, we had to ... I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  how they manipulated me into believing I have to get everyone’s approval ... particularly refers to personal ads about missed connections: You were on your ... new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday

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

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your ... confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the

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

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... sacrificing your ride home, and especially if they don't fix the fan belt on ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  myself it's been 3 years since I failed to follow through on this ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  function of the seasonings you chose, so this is going to depend on how you ... with enough water to cover everything (or more, depending on how you like ... . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor to take the time to write to a colleague to tell him how much an ... ; I get responses to my e-mails within a day or two (or, often, within ... I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... even if you go to every recitation and lecture, you might still fail your

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... 't solely use this test to measure how "good" your essay is! That is something ... wanted to write a blog on how to write the essay but I had to use froyo to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... to many more measurement problems later on"]we decided it was within our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW ... an event. N: Go to the events and form your own opinions. There's a community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school, completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... out the door. I jump on the 1 bus and get off at MIT, get coffee, and ... so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• 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?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... , along with my ability to boss people around and show up on time, qualifies

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008