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

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... "Deadliest Catch," so I think I am going to settle for going to vet school

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

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take ... to sit around and wait for someone to write it for us. We are more than ... senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of ... imprisoned himself in building 4 to study for physics, I holed myself up in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... strong interest in and love for economics. Janet: Before I decided to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  person to be a little bit obnoxious ... a little bit inappropriate or ... . Yale in particular was shocking to me--more personal to me than the ... ” party, people from MIT went to Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... dimension of one's personal background to maximize the likelihood of admission ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  it’s very common for a student like me to be able to email their ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... , I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot ... by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... . (Warning: I’m about to wax philosophical for what will probably be several ... plans for college life - what course I wanted to be, what dorm I wanted to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to ... ), Next Sing, to name a few. [annotation note="i was also a desk worker for ... mentors to my naive frosh self, and constantly looking for ways to improve

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it doesn't make you an altogether sane person for that time, or an altogether

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  circumference Cons couches hard to work on personally, I find it too quiet ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “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…

  

  challenges. So when my turn came to introduce myself and share my reasons for ... work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I ... fulfilling internship at a company I never expected to work for: Amazon, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling ... , children, come to Muti for school. Many will live with relatives or rent

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... more for having gone through this journey and brought myself to this ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  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

  

  young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005