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How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.
this really obscure interest in fish that MIT does not specialize in, I -
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The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?
finish with flying colors. Sound familiar? It does to me, because that -
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neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?
on his office's 3D printer (picture, which does not really do justice -
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My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.
they file tax forms,” she shot back. “Everyone does.” After a few more -
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How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.
give me some of yours. =) 3. Ask good questions. If you ask me “does MIT -
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An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any
farther (further? does anyone really know the difference?...Of course, now I -
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Mind and hand
it does. For some people, this is old hat. For me, it's really -
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How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in
his writing score, since I got a 790 on the writing SAT II. Me: "Does -
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There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…
’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of -
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Dissecting emotion what is feeling
into dust, and there is nothing I can do to save it, because that's just -
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All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
, so Simmons was left without lights, save for the emergency ones in the -
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If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?
people I've ever met. He began his speech the way most do, and I'll save -
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The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety
throughout the day. But if I’m scared of nothing like I say I am, why does the fear make it hard to breathe? Why does it feel like someone is -
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How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them
on this blog post. But this does mean you'll be skipping some classes ... colleges have wildly different academic calendars and deadlines than MIT does -
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My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months
have in my paper were results. Does that sound important? Yes, it totally does. But because of COVID-19, my ability to run an in-person study where -
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All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!
(which sadly does happen, as I wrote before). They have no place in serious ... from raspberry fingertip disease as she does*). Also, this is the third -
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5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)
life even if one does fail out of school (and your interests are academic ... successfully, and I am in awe at his diligence. He does not recommend it: I -
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And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game
Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and taking down the decorations in my locker. So, how -
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i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming
thing does not currently exist in my possession. Two Fridays ago, I threw