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Discover / The MIT education
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confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can ... .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university, not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT -
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[intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT ... -free. Those who do borrow tend to have debt at graduation lower than the ... salary of $126,438 for graduates entering industry according to the most -
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less constrained educational environment to take on exciting projects, go ... Stanford OHS. Transcripts of these courses, in addition to an evaluation of the ... Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work with other students -
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[intro]MIT's primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are -
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College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!
what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... roommate and b) you can say no if they try to buy anything really heinous ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you -
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Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk
from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and -
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Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success
. Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in -
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Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends
the country was trying to buy used gym equipment for their basements ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical -
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Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT
The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... to hide from me. I put them back where I thought they might belong and ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program -
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How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge
try to convince ESP to buy me a circular saw (which they did!). I ... for my grandmother, who loved to hear, and tell others, about my ... left with some extra wood stain, varnish, and desire to build things. So -
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[Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27
buy very few of them. It’s difficult to cut the side profile accurately ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture -
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Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT
strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For many years, many Cambridge residents had limited access to healthy, fresh -
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I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in -
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Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT
our GRTs, Al, ran over to the local Target at literally 10:30 PM to buy ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one -
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As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in
of your childhood before you have to buy your own groceries (the rest ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to