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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Cambridge, or from LaVerde's in the student center, but LaVerde's tends to be ... guaranteed to be safe. Moreover, if you get a MacBook Pro, you can have all the ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you

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

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

  

  ’t. After Saturday, you’ll still be the same person you are today, so cling to ... thanks to Eric ‘16 who pushed me the whole way). Not only was it great fun ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... personal record - being broken. So I guess while it's fair to consider the ... . That means defying the sinking feeling you're bound to feel from being in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to choose to be happy, choose not to overload yourself with coursework ... the end, I was going to be dissatisfied no matter which option I pick ... . So the proper way to think about an NFA is not by making a transition

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

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  school can support those who may not have easy access to the numerous ... start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  minutes left in my assignment. So - this will have to be quick. Consider ... will be a painful job for you. It's important to post regularly. Do you ... half an hour," he said, "to write about being an MIT admissions blogger

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

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  back to California to start medical school, where I will be wearing flip ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be ... one moment. Because I moved, I met the people who I know will someday be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that ... will take place on main campus. There’s east campus on the east, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Arizona will be good for you, though you’re not going to understand why yet ... ’s not the right worry; I will be different. I’m worried that I won’t like ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will ... are not value judgments--they're not meant to tell you whether the way

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

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... at age 17, then I will never be good. Specifically, I will never be the ... to strive for. And if I’m not going to accomplish anything or be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  fixed in the future, they will be required to add safe, accessible bike ... biking should not be an afterthought in roadway design" and will require ... will at least change the way you think of bikes. "In order to become

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  brilliantly talented, the very asset that got you in will be the biggest and ... academic workflow to pieces. It's a tough blow to absorb to not be able to ... guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group's size. Murals — All the walls will be painted over in the renovation, so decades of murals would be whitewashed. The TT worked with students to

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

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie. According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  anytime (he or she will often not be there) help conversations and guidance ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  the rest. You will not be treated differently for not getting in during ... indication of how successful you will be in the future. Do not fixate only on ... confident that our biggest triumphs or losses will not be an admissions

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014