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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 ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in labyrinthine pastures, then (b) spending the next six hours buried elbow-deep in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... came from Turkey than from Texas. In 1909, President Maclaurin began his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... ’ve lived in this room. many of the things in this room have been passed down

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in-depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... done well in science competitions (yet), and I really did not have much

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin's case, The Tube) until both we and the pterodactyls in our stomachs were ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges, share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... year, in order to 1) see what actually happened and 2) figure out what I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in)convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English ... -inducing passage from Faulkner's Light in August: Memory believes before knowing

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

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015