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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and ... clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... since you can just store them on your computer, but it's nice to have some

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is bad, it's just life. This is also something I forgot to account for when ... use generative AI or whatever. Even more strongly, I wanted each card to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... Muji and get a fresh notebook just so I can fill it with more writing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  didn't need anymore. I quickly messaged and went to claim it from her ... school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... ]. I tried to argue that I could handle it and the assessment was a fluke

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , of course, if they think you can read it). And, the sidewalks are lined ... Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  image 1 pixel to the right? Does it even matter, when all I can envision ... cancelled before it even started due to COVID-19, so that hope is effectively ... ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others ... go hand in hand for me, and it’s what I go to most often for fun. Ariel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  middle of a semester can be hard, sometimes, due to scheduling and school ... it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and ... ="335"] it's a me[/caption] You can also see me holding a wand in this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  use moments of confusion or disagreement to grow together. It’s a very ... , and it had been a long day. We still had cases to review, when a hush ... You’ve done it. You’ve hit submit. Now what? You might imagine that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  committee. We hope that they won't have to use it, and that they can return to ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... (including me) have never been to CPW before, so we're eager to see what it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... a Thing I think it’s somewhat silly to contend that there are ... freshman to junior year. It felt good to me to get good grades because good

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  into MIT. The major reasoning behind my decision to go here was that it ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... -related incident. I used to take my pet rats to class in the hood of my sweatshirt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  , in use 90% of its available time. So, it made perfect sense to make Riri Williams attend lecture here--although, you can make students go to ... or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a spot, unfortunately..." But you'll get used to it eventually. In ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... wouldn't they accept me? It's meant to be. They must have gotten something

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... murmuring “but this is your dream” and you’re trying your best to ignore it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014