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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  parents to bring the rest of their stuff. You can also order it online and ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

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

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  . Unfortunately, I can’t find the exact length of this bridge online, but I believe ... alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... combination of slide presentations and chalktalks. Sometimes there are also p

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Grad schools come in a lot of different flavors—med school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... drafts of this post, and Alan for editing. What it's all about Team ... 's oldest, largest puzzlehunt, an event where hundreds of teams, with sizes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . After going online last semester they worked extremely hard for all of us ... , helpful staff, very clean online transition. 9.46: Neuroscience of Morality ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... struggling with a big decision. Writing itself, of course, is a structured way of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... and revolutionary one. The field of visual storytelling is really broad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012