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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  have it shipped to your dorm room, but make sure your sheets are twin ... sure to do that at some point. Also, an umbrella, a hat, gloves, a scarf ... 't need a laundry bag or anything to lug stuff down to the laundry room. You

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

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... from what we call MIT north, which is a little off from actual north, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the ... would make for a cute ship, and we, as players, thought it'd be fun to do ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... , and my day to day thoughts while in Ethiopia into a single, coherent piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  . You scramble to find a pencil. You can no longer remember the answer ... ’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a ... opportunity to gain a different perspective and meet awesome people. So over the ... . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... mile! (while hard to see, there's a banner that says "Go Sox" suspended

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... , you will find one, even if you have to bang down a few intimidating ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice ... good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my orgo TA's office. I don't regret it. I needed to find those limits, I ... more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  , and told Professor Dumbledore that it had inspired me to find a UROP in ... was a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Dumbledore: Fancy ... letters with actual human handwriting. I was therefore super pumped to find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... cultural fit to find your best space. PRICING: MIT has three tiers of dorm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and ... interviewees explained how they came to a stronger understanding of their ... person’s identity that they hadn’t expected to find; for others, however

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard ... ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . I thought this was just a laughing matter, but I was shocked to find ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... make a total of [annotation note="to be fair, they do taste really good

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  *voluntary* thing that is totally unnecessary to living a happy, fulfilling ... a foothold on why they wanted to Do The Thing beyond these reasons ... contributing to your 401K; a fire that’ll help you answer the existential “what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... to work a random barista job that realistically will not contribute to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025