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  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college ... you learn during your time in college, it's that plans change. Who knows

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  into a selective college, but what you wanted to do more than anything ... possible for competitive college admissions. Sometimes, you really can have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  people. They are my colleagues, classmates, college roommates and lab ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  Community College. Both of us were, of course, terribly disappointed that she ... ." very meekly. And in college it's especially awkward when you write an e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  almost exclusively took AP classes. So I just assumed college was going to ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  plans for college life - what course I wanted to be, what dorm I wanted to ... reasons it’s one of the best colleges out there. However, to go back to the ... for a long time. Realistically, it’s my freshman year in college, and I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  coming out the other side, starting with,   1. When I left college ... complexity, there’s college with its dizzying selection of programs, then you ... independent. When you leave college you abruptly lose a huge number of external

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  still gone to college, made new friends, learned to work hard, had a blast

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  Rhodey, implying a college friendship. Even stronger evidence is Rhodey'

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  first semester of college and can't figure out why you keep forgetting ... before college. One guy's answer, which lowkey brought tears to my eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... a gap year before they start college, so most know exactly what they

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  was applying to colleges - when I was a good deal more lazy than I am ... past applicants who posted their success stories on College Confidential

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010