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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also ... every moment of sleep you get! - as a quick side note, I would suggest ... want to cook is up to you. I suggest learning how because it can be a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and ... those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow ... than I could grow, at a price lower than I would have to pay to grow it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  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 ... something incredibly basic, but because I saw an opportunity that people talk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  how I applied to MIT) that helps low-income and minority students get ... from those communities, I've put together this blog that details a non ... start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Tumblr: “We would commiserate with each other about how high school felt ... loopholes, no matter how beautiful the numbers were. I’m nearly twenty ... possibility. Often, I would walk along the same street, music tucked in my ears

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  ways I can get there, how long each would take, and when I would need to ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be ... 't too far of a trek. I cook around 3-5 times a week, depending on how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  -theory-y game show i think u would like it reminds me of what you did w next but ... : have u seen the genius its a korean reality tv show i think u would like ... would be fun omg whitney: can i join this project even though i am booked

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  was, about how serious mental illness was, about how maybe I would feel ... yours? To be truly happy, then. How would I know what that felt like ... the voice? Would I be a bad Christian, then? The fear had paralyzed me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  how MIT was the best school in the world and that I would certainly ... they were going on and on about how cool it would be if I got in, and ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce myself to the MIT community? Self-deprecatingly, that's how.  Before I ... negate how excited I was to graduate.     After graduation I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Going to the IOI, I would always be reminded about how much time the NOI.PH staff spent on training us, and how it would be a waste if I didn’t do ... ? And if I had picked a different college, how much would my life have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . I never really knew how blogging would affect my experience at MIT and especially how it would affect my experience after MIT but going back to read ... !!!) When I was applying to MIT, I got something in the mail. The website was

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... and decided to see how long Milk could last. Either way, Milk was let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... missed my post-JAMB and after it became clear that I would have to wait at ... ’t accepted me, I could probably find some other institution that would. Shade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... ’t think anyone would have thought much was wrong. I had just spent the ... the time that I didn’t have to be around other people, I would retreat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... schedule that other students would kill for. I took 48 credits, which, while ... -procrastination blues). I must say, I was surprisingly alert. I don't know how much

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about time and how I’ve been spending it. Happiness and how people think ... own, I thought this would be it. I’d have my own life, pursue my hobbies ... like planning a trip would take so much time and energy. I didn’t start

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  investigate or how long I would need to trace down different routes. My advisor ... where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed that I would attend UW Madison (wrong), triple major (typical MIT frosh

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn ... into bins based on how much I liked them. The UROP was bad, the web ... small features to YWEIYST and seeing what it looked like. I would add

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022