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Blog / How to Food
How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible
of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first ... on the presence or absence of dining (unless cost is an important -
Blog / Admissions
November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.
processing. If your school uses Naviance/Docufide to submit letters of ... : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of ... letters without it are at no disadvantage. We will accept your school's -
Blog / MIT Life
The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.
during the school year. But those seven days at the end of the summer ... seven years - we were friends at the end of middle school and freshman year of high school, but he moved and we didn't really keep in touch. It -
Blog / About Decisions
Finding Your Match and why it matters
experience. Sure, there are a half-dozen people at each of the schools I ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago -
Blog / MIT Life
This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above
I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the ... newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference -
Blog / Challenges
Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process
frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting
of downtown Boston. I knew that this semester would be particularly tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I ... with a total of[annotation note="these also have associated numbers -
Blog / Admissions
last minute application panic for the procrastinators
deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other ... , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon -
Blog / How to Human
re-orienting REX et al.
offer, instead of focusing on what it requires you to give. When I was ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Back to work
CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 -
Blog / MIT Life
I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…
) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed -
Blog / Admissions
This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.
is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of -
Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]
Letters from the 2023 decisions threads
. I soon forgot about my sorrows because of how much I loved my school ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our -
Blog / MIT Life
Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.
Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... for high school!!!!!!shiftone"; remember, I was in your place about two ... high school twenty miles away from home. I have perspective. The -
Blog / Admissions
Numbers Sigh.
matter. The importance of your high school rank will linger through your ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to -
Blog / MIT Life
Desired things a youthful aside.
I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American -
Blog / MIT Life
A speech, of sorts
government I knew about was the prom-planning of the high school level and ... Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup
, which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab -
Blog / How to Human
remember me on family
couple years ago, maybe my sophomore year of high school, my mom told me ... of my senior year of high school, I remember trying to figure out where ... tell him it's a competitive school, that the possibility of me getting