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How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.
As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes, writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in -
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Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable
toolbar of my laptop screen. No internet connection. I leave the call and ... yesterday; we ran out of bedding. Everyone on screen pauses, moves one or two -
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SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger
uncensored. I write about whatever I like, without having it "screened" by an -
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Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day
screen among known drugs for necrosis against a potential drug to see if -
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Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT
Book Pro, the power cord can get trapped between the screen and the keyboard -
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everything i made this year (mostly)
screen displayed gibberish for the first few rounds but it’s okay) This ... , LCD screen, camera module, big arcade button + 8 small white buttons ... ergonomic and ensuring that the screen was angled to face the user. [caption -
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From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor
own experiences. So, I would encourage you to embark on the search (and to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in -
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“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…
friends at other schools who are still searching for that "passion." "We don ... you who can relate to the kind of uncertainty, soul-searching, and -
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Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
idea what I wanted to do. Focusing your job search on mechanical engineering is like focusing your volunteer search on charities, and I had no -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
my friends outside of class. I should have searched for a healthier -
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No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.
college search process, newbies flood the boards with "chance" threads, in -
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Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
"blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search -
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My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally
the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in -
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I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT
now, gone and in the past. My name will get read off of the screen, my -
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MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye
community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These -
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Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down
letters assembling on a screen. I only realized well into the process that -
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A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.
of April Fools' Day, the cursor on all of the screens suddenly grew to -
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Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.
screening before you were definitively admitted to MIT; we said "not only can -
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the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts
been by Cami M. '23 in search of lost time by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24 and