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

  

  into MIT. The major reasoning behind my decision to go here was that it ... -Madison. What inspired you to get into limnology? It's like the (awesomer ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... “slow and steady,” although I’m reluctant to apply it here because MIT isn

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  corridor. it's actually not that long but everyone usually goes through it to ... guess it's the namesake of this post too!"] Infinite [/annotation] to ... Happy [annotation note="so if you think about it i'm technically

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I feel that it's still a slogan that sounds cute, but it's also meaningful. It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... I start reading, I close everything; it's impossible for me to ... so on. After editing and giving some narrative structure to my notes, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll probably have to share during the day when it's busy Ida Green Room (9th ... display to play with if you so desire Cons  it's kind of creepy to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... ). They're all students just like anyone, eager to meet new people... and it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  wouldn't they accept me? It's meant to be. They must have gotten something ... 's because of that one bad grade! It's because I didn't have time to take the ... to do is to work on It, and make it better so that next time you might

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  , and I drink it religiously.) 9:20-9:30 -- Bike across campus from W61 to ... hair. It's nice to have people you've known since sixth grade who also ... home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... asked to hold off on posting until this challenge was over. Maybe it only

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in ... it to [annotation note="My mother and I have an inside

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... the world tell you who you have to be and what it looks like to be ... they are just doing it to themselves," and that the reason they got so

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... .) - Name given to MIT's beaver suit mascot (get it?) tool (v.) - To work very ... the Green Building; according to MIT myth, it was built to block the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... –1973 application cycle, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you all

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... the opportunity, but rather to fully capitalize on it. As much as I ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... conversations at all). Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide ... to fix it, but it's not like falling and scraping my knee where my body

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... results. It turned out, there was a lot people had to say--about their ... means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018