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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 ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  of us CEOs in our late 20s, and how everything would surface between us ... finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce

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

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

  

  to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... . 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

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• 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 ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  about time and how I’ve been spending it. Happiness and how people think about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in ... own, I thought this would be it. I’d have my own life, pursue my hobbies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ] 2013 In 2013, I made a Twitter account. I cut my hair, and started buying ... [/annotation] it’s so wild how mitski and i had the same exact mental breakdown in ... , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... 'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  from every Hunt would be unreasonable, as I'll talk about in The gift of ... processes. It's incredible how MIT supports all this in the first place, and I ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  applicants). I am attending Mount Sinai School of Medicine. IV. In April, I ... : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;t know how much longer I would've lasted. Looking back, the only ... ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would ... , but do I know anyone still in Boston during Winter Break?  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... likely result in bad outcomes. The point here is that [annotation note="I ... a boon—why must I have to make this decision? In another sense, though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  disappointed in myself at the time, because I hadn’t realized how much effort ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... Waterstones and bought I think five more. My favorites would be Lud-in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  how to spend my days in social isolation [annotation note="something i ... supposed to, last year; how would my life look? Would I be comfortably ... ’s enough to get me to think about it endlessly. I know I’m not alone in how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  on how I was doing even in semesters I wasn’t taking any of her classes ... how differently I would structure the book were I to rewrite it, but it ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... half - I have never taken just four classes in one semester at MIT. I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011