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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  childhood before you have to buy your own groceries (the rest of us are ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  . After stopping by a bakery to buy some roll cake (for breakfast the next ... Currently listening to Currently with: Raymond, Lucy, and Shannia ... course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to ... for that class was to  "Make An Agent." For this project, you must make ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major ... trip to Zambia had seen this show and quoted it nonstop. I had never seen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  is that one year ago, I vowed to leave no restaurant within walking ... ugliness. Fulfillment proved to be elusive, expensive, and less compelling ... pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  to buy 700 and 1000: around $500. Alan: This is bad pricing design ... [/annotation] to buy a thousand fortune cookies, just so we could make a stupid joke ... post.)"]here we go again.[/annotation] CJ: Why does it have to be "oh

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  no costs in using your credit card to buy that Arizona tea, why that ... quantity sold and such the retailer has to buy more from Arizona. And so that ... wanted to be an interior designer. When I was 15, I decided I actually

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  several different art styles and con the admissions office into buying us ... of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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