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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  contribute at this hackathon since we were expected to physically build ... together before the hackathon (which was allowed at this competition) to ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... being at MIT helped you in this regard? MIT has been really good for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  year old black woman from Chicago studying at MIT. She was to take over ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at ... , and my eyes both dart to and from material and see nothing at all. It ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  everything at the wall and see what sticks” strategy, including small towns and ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... deserving to be at MIT. People talked about working at leading cancer research

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  to table to floor and back, singing our hearts out and feeling joy. At that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... ready to be at MIT again, especially an MIT that had changed so much while

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  ?” He paused. “When I was at MIT,” said this man, who graduated a very ... ’t come back with a monologue about how admissions actually work at MIT, and ... point at all. Instead, I managed to deflect the conversation to things I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling ... emotional instability. Two days later I had a procedure at MIT Medical to ... Eric at Tufts. My dad tells me that when he and my mom were at Phys

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It ... “I’m not sure.” Smile and wave at everyone you know, even if they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  overly aggressive firehose and it's just too much information all at once ... -- you'll learn it soon enough if you do commit. In fact, you'll see at it ... admits spend a weekend at MIT learning about our culture and getting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the next sixty years, eight other organizations would form at different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at ... , to describe my time at Ward Melville. To analyze the data, I wrote some ... ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... be ascribed to not studying for long enough, but at some point “I just ... test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It

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

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  began with absolutely no swimming at all. Not even floating. Just bobbing ... from back when I was five or so has me at some pool somewhere - I don ... to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... my life. But once I arrived at MIT, it seems almost blasphemous if you ... 's quite specific and personal. I am slow at math and continue to lack the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  (researching at a Department of Defense Research and Development Laboratory ... someone else's life at MIT: 6.131 Lab. 6.131 Lab, or Power Electronics is ... first place. At this time of year in many other classes, students are

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... . Please leave a message at an appropriate temporal distance from the beep

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  application is then read by a primary reader who will summarize it at length for ... up at the mention of cell biology, how you were five minutes late ... , but at least it's fair. (And by fair I mean fair in the context of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006