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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  that) So if you’re like me, maybe you wonder what combination of ... -tool - Best thing you can carry as long as you’re not going to the airport. I ... . Anything also make it into your bags/pockets/fanny packs? (I’m not here to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  responsibilities in your MIT student life. Since I was posting less regularly, I felt ... MIT???" Are you cool with having a weird cartoon avatar of your face on ... hour, so the job couldn't possibly take *that* much time out of your week :)

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  ." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I ... worse when you're exhausted - trivial issues are crises and anything short ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let ... off your shoulders. Take a load off. It's advice that you may have been

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  friends of yours have started companies?” she asks me. Immediately, half a ... should take next semester.  Tell me about your passions. President ... you’re curious to know something, MIT will give you the tools to figure

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

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an ... ’m soaking in being a senior at MIT and living at home.  What Is Your Favorite ... has your relationship with Imposter Syndrome been like? Have you found a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  the rest of the talking. https://youtu.be/vdCQoajVQds Hope your road

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  'm hoping the rest of my (and your) senior year pans out like that.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . Clean up your own mess. My room at home the summer before college and my ... know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... . Better I did it in my early twenties than later... Wash your hands before

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  . Congratulations on your graduation, Charles - and thanks for all of the dangerously

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you ... occasionally to think out loud with his hands extremely close to your face, or to ... environment that will utilize your analytical problem skills and critical

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  that I am in your debt. I desperately needed a slice of home, of people ... hope your brothers and sisters will be kind, July. I'll try to be kind to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  position for rich, new experiences that could somehow shape your identity ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  point, you realized that your college experience is very different from ... -in-a-lifetime experiences. It will help put your five-year plan (which I am sure lots of you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  pick your race or ethnicity, you're doing it wrong.” If anything, the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in ... you if you're nice to them first. What have other people's experiences

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... spring: but learn how to spend your free time wisely I took my newfound ... fall realizations started to show their ugly side. Filling your free time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  enough. The absolute best part of making your own furniture is that you get to make it yours. I designed the table so that if put next to my ... bottom of the wood you're varnishing and dry in a yucky clump, and not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... . Every time I go home you have some new plan for expanding your lawn mowing ... same path as me, something in math or science, but you have found your

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019