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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  enough seats next to each other for all of us. And when we finally sat down ... to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at ... some assignments, and went to office hours for a different class that is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  and the November fire show (cleverly named Novemburn) happened to land ... David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... experiments, and make sure the paper is completed for submission. To uphold the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 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 ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good ... for dear life to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . SIPB sells the juice to ESP in exchange for fresh souls, which they keep ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical ... suffered this stoically for years, begins to weep. Her tears are acid. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play ... motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just ... present for all the ups and downs of an athlete’s journey. Thanks to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... make it happen. So Dave uttered the words every geek wants to hear (for ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... , or collecting a large set of people named Josh to fight for the right

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , they come with a price tag of your time and an expectation for them to be ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  only to sit down for another round of coffee.  what would i tell myself ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half ... another for ages. You decided you wanted to go to MIT when you were seven

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again, unable to pick, unable to think about picking, for about ten minutes ... website, for example) outside of reading season to reserve our cognitive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... ’ve had. It stretched to four hours and left me nonfunctional for the next ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  your major(s), purely for the fun of it. It's important to think about ... afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don't take it for granted ... time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  it’s very common for a student like me to be able to email their ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... , I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides ... especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough, he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that ... that would be better for me.] David says he was going to do some more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020