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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

  

  people carry around with them all the time, so I figured I’d dump out my ... , my student ID, a charlie card, and an amount of cash seemingly chosen

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of ... just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested

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

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... get about events on a particular weekend, but I’d venture a guess that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  't solely use this test to measure how "good" your essay is! That is something ... mundane test scores, GPA, and lists of activities. Why not capitalize on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  enough, it still is.   2. First time pulling an all-nighter. I’d ... anyway, until my very first night on the MIT campus. But I’d been up all ... much better, especially if I knew I’d prepared the best I could.  

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  to look green and spring-y. [caption id="attachment_74750" align ... river on the way to Maseeh. [caption id="attachment_74749" align ... are on the other side of the river.[/caption] [caption id

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  for me before. All my life I'd grown up hearing things about my family ... would burn bright and I'd be dedicated and I wouldn't feel so burnt out ... engineering, organic chemistry, and music are. I'd find ways outside of school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  deposit, or another school halfway across the country where I'd been ... . If I went to the other school, though, I'd be surrounded by people I ... could learn more, he said; even if I didn't like it, I'd still be learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  abstract concept that would just hit you once you "grew up". I thought I'd turn 18 or whatever and just suddenly know how to do my taxes. Or I'd turn 25 and I'd just, I don't know, understand how mortgages and car

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  out of. Second, there's a feeling that I'd somehow fallen from a star, that that semester was the tip of my career and I'd never be able to ... As, and do little besides. I always thought I'd come to MIT and do

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  myself to the MIT community? Self-deprecatingly, that's how.  Before I'd ... installation of Game of Thrones, but I promised I'd tie back in to Amy Cuddy ... incoming sales inquiries. I became our Salesforce.com administrator. I’d

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  !!! this is one of the most awesome perks about our student ID - I've been ... ID does not give free entry. However, MITAC gives discounts! 35. and ... earn credit/money here, I decided that it's not something that I'd do for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  the test, possibly failing the class and definitely tanking your GPA. Or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  Filipino high school students every year take this test called the PMO, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  complete a task such as a problem set or a test or a long trip. It can

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  backgrounds, and you can’t discredit yourself solely on a standardized test

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  to regurgitate anything that you crammed for the test the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . I’d say I’m doing pretty well on this. Sidequest 4: Get a cool

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017