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Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.
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Blog / About Decisions
The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.
postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... us to know what is GMO and what is not. He added that many college ... offered, which is much more likely to be untampered with. The best news is -
Blog / How to Human
“Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom
's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear ... support those going through troubling times. During my time at college, I -
Blog / How to Human
How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk
lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... from the academic life of college. Once during freshman year, I was tired ... being a wide-eyed froshling (freshman) at MIT (or any other college), the -
Blog / How to MIT
The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT
. For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... stereotypical broke-college-student way. Curious to find how others think of ... pay upfront for dining when they pay tuition. The two meal plans offered -
Blog / How to Human
A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey
do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... college, but it's honestly hard to see that progress sometimes, as I -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room
the boxes for them. MIT dorms also offer a storage plan that covers up ... college. ;) My amazing friends Yida and Sarah agreed to help me move my ... college students flooding into Boston right now), so I reserved a 10-foot -
Blog / Admissions
7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years
and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... . It’s why we have no honors college or even honors classes, no grade de -
Blog / Admissions
Kickoff! and away we go...
've got to offer. So what does FIRST have to do with this Kelly Clarkson ... continued to mentor the team throughout college. Now, I am, to the best of my ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience -
Blog / Admissions
You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.
Cheney," "The Al Franken") and Boston area colleges ("The Crimson," "The ... while at MIT, the school offers us the opportunity to be as happy as ... like the traditional standard college essay I'd always heard about -
Blog / Challenges
Making Tracks
, academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened ... , conveniently being offered the very week you're struggling. You really thought -
Blog / Academics & Research
Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…
schools offer biology or BME (biomedical engineering), but there are very few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have -
Blog / Academics & Research
The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.
in their seminars) and are open only to freshmen. The seminars offered ... preprofessional advisor through the MIT Careers Office; this advisor offers guidance ... 's supervisor asked him to work on a project for his Aero/Astro master's degree -
Blog / Academics & Research
Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.
amazing cook offers you this deal, take it.) My stomach was very happy that ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really ... the podium and undergrads on the other, and alternate awarding degrees -
Blog / How to Human
how to meet curious people
time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore ... organizations do nothing except act as vessels to sell [college] student resumes ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program -
Blog / Academics & Research
everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things
engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... an architecture discovery class. In general, I want to use college to ... , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the -
Blog / Life after MIT
On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.
feelings before/throughout/after college and always, so they're kind of ... survive college. It was harder than I expected to rip myself away from that ... degrees!!! (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is -
Blog / Academics & Research
An MIT Week general structure and personal experience
units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of ... MIT bubble. We’re in college but not part of it. Harvard makes us -
Blog / Academics & Research
Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.
, and I just graduated from MIT in June with degrees in brain and ... college as when I left), and for three two-hour chunks of time every week ... opportunity-laden time as college. If you're going to take the easy road now -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.
to be to succeed in any college, let alone an elite one), but I need ... grand scale like the rumors you hear about cutthroat colleges. I think ... 's degrees in pure sciences aren't very useful? Does that hold true with