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  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because, no matter how smoothly you try to form your sentences, they invariably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  : I even got to grow up, get married, have kids, buy a house, land a ... Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  . Where do you think George got the money to buy the team? Well, Henry used ... Since everyone seems to have Olympic fever these days (Michael Phelps ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to ... Magazine In Style--featuring tips on buying your own helicopter and $5000 knit sweaters--when I'm at MIT, I have been known to take bathroom breaks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  ’t have prom or if you decided not to go, then you probably aren’t missing much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like ... , you’re dancing awfully close to Jimmy...”) Have no fear, for if you come

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February ... I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of suicidal thoughts, depression, etc. background I started going to concerts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  upkeep, food (I'll get to that later), paying for our two cats, and buying ... from having the kitchen stocked by a student elected to buy groceries to ... chefs can sign up to clean, buy groceries, or help more knowledgeable

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  to lecture. Buy lunch. Work on my pset in the lounge. Head to ... the morning. Quickly assemble breakfast. Head to lecture. Cook lunch, or buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  buying were relatively cheap, so I totally wanted to barf out when I saw ... of my German bank account to buy the ticket. However, I had ... Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if ... distance to your high school, DING DING DING! You're in a prime position to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  flight because you really want to buy these clothes Get a gate change ... I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  "]IAP[/annotation], i began to cook™ for myself often. i would buy weekly groceries, make ... , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  merits of eating meat after I went vegetarian but switching to buying me ... since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... wanted this to be recognized. Instead I just felt relieved that there was

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our ... : 1.) we still had to feed ourselves and 2.) we had an abnormal amount

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  supplies and requires you to buy food at the grocery store (the one most ... many people don't have the time or desire to do. 5) Cash Buy food on ... This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... to be a real person. Like a real person who pays bills. But then I paid ... Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  you go to college without it? 18.03 Book Mmmmmmm, Differential ... present. I hate physics, so of course my family buys me a book about physics ... nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008