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

  

  to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  , like, 10 classes at MIT."]Joe Steinmeyer.[/annotation] This blogpost ... 't like it." Lectures met every Monday in 10-250, one of MIT's larger ... , Thursday 7:30-10:00 lab section with Aiden, while Raymond had the 12

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  still)[/caption] 10 - with teresa, three cyanotype cameras This semester ... to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high

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

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

  

  : Pasadena City College (Pasadena, CA) MIT major: 10-ENG (Chemical ... the given prompts. Luana: In November 2021, I began the process of

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  would have taken several rounds of hammering to achieve the same result

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and ... trying to recreate trick shots. 21:17 - 22:17 Saturday, August 24th ... ! What up haters, today we're gonna unleash another furious beast of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  M. '21s"] BeaverCube,[/annotation] a [annotation note="1U = 10 cm^3 cube, so a 3U is 30 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm. People often say it's the size of ... to fly in August 2021, with a handover date for final testing in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  classes! That day, dear readers, was today. So here's a post all about everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and ... back to sleep instantly. 10.00 - 10.10 am: The snooze goes off. I feel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a ... April 2005, I had my own tricky time of deciding where to go to college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  their front row seats to help us out, and the results were pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  result of smart peers is that your professors will have very high

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  , nothing before this had ever suggested that I couldn’t get the results I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  best results. To that end, the last day of my swimming class ended with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  things for their students, and the resulting burnout is incredibly ... result, ~*introspection*~ isn’t really built into the Institutional culture ... just care about learning. I would not be the person I am today without

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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.

  

  , stemming from the two-dimensional polygon result. In 1844 Gerling showed (and ... of the parallel result in two dimensions: the volume of a triangle is ... that he published even the smallest results. Hilbert continued his

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

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

  

  Information Office located in Room 10-100, and until our recent move, 10-100 was ... occupy the following rooms: 10-100, 3-108, 3-111, 3-103, 3-007, and 3 ... of the campus COVID-19 lockdown—I was permitted to visit the office to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our ... last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... a dream), Roseanne, Patrick, "me," Analiese '10, Vihang, and Elizabeth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007