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• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  conditions right to get the floor seeds to sprout...but after a week, things in ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit ... point I'm getting to here is that this argument is clearly a far cry from ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  a woman listened to 351,281 of Taylor Swift this year, placing her in ... first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... hears a mysterious voice calling to her. In the beginning of the song, she ... , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... act in a false way during their interview.  Additionally, to appear in ... a point, then you should be ready to defend your position, if asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but ... to the end. you're a better person/mathematician/what have you now. and ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  find your UROP? A: Once you find your first UROP, it’s easy to find ... throughout the year. There are advantages and disadvantages to working in a big ... doing in the future? A: I wish to attend medical school and obtain MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  purpose of making a profit and getting drugs that will make it to patients ... . Basically, the end goal for a lot of people in biology is to become a PI ... position in academic research. Here the pay is good, you get your own lab

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... experience leads to a smaller proportion of the time it took to gain that ... might make more sense. When you are one year old, a year is 100% of your

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  always a luxury students get to enjoy). I've been known to spend an hour in ... into the bookstore, getting a refund at the end of the year equal to 7 ... else is there to spend all of your hard earned TechCash on? How about a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  with someone is a commitment, in a similar way. I will be there for your ... ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Vanilla Sauce We'd love to meet you and your family in February if you ... your entrée preferences, and I'll get back to you with directions and ... me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  have a family line and in this family line you have your bigs and littles ... specific space. To be with this specific guy in this specific frat in a house ... out of a want to get to know me. But simultaneously the semester was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above ... the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of ... used (location? design? stigma?). In a community in India (I think

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for ... to see beyond his local bay, his glorious ship in reality just a small ... in the Mahabharata (quoting my last post): Dronacharya gave a test to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at ... access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their ... made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn ... 've heard in a while, so for every person who got in, there had to be a reason

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  though. We had a big push to get this website out ASAP when we realized ... launched - you can find it at aieducation.mit.edu. If you're a student who's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  clouded with pain. What. Body sculpt? As in, trying to make your body look ... out. I considered leaving, but didn't want to seem like a wimp. In any ... , coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... want to teach in a saviouristic way, and I become a little more hesitant

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022