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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... , to answer life's great questions with. Each group of people is special

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  anatomy of different whale subspecies, or the social behavior of catfish. If ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... ) freshwater version of marine biology. This field is notably much more prevalent

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

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn ... receptive. Sofia’s answer was spot on. I don’t want to string any more of the ... storytelling—that there is a better way, and that we can work to create that

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  of challenge. For a while, I flailed. I would come to class or to the ... Harvard and MIT to the Museum of Science and back again on the Boston side ... Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  TM without the structure of college to rely on is an intimidating prospect and ... I’m looking at the bright side of things, which is that I get to spend ... ’s charge to the graduates is one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve watched

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , shallow layer close to the surface of the soil. This is very simple and ... depth is more or less larger chunks of whatever’s already in your fancy ... ’s still not a great way to “x-ray the ground” which is a silly question I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  't have to worry about the capacity of each classroom, or which classrooms ... this is chickening out. I spent the next hour or so continuing to lie on ... importance of teamwork and relying on others, or how to make decisions that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... , catch up with mates, go out on friday/saturday nights, or is the lifestyle ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... ’m ultimately glad that we’re moving on to other places. I visited my high school with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  -year-old stop crying by sitting her on my lap and reading to her. Or more ... exactly is this Robby fellow?” which might then prompt descriptions of a ... of (my crush) Aubrey Plaza to “Make all your decisions based on how

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and ... talk to you, Career Fair is sort of like that. [caption id ... paragraphs and sentences depending on what type of company I'm applying to. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  from one end of the pool to the other on fins, I was still struggling to ... . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... terrified, to the end of the pool from which I had kicked off. “I almost

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  : Off to Steam Cafe (to which people submit their own recipes), on the ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... sort of theme wrapped around it, or sending a themed invitation to teams ... us, which I had two bowls of; he mentions having to resist "putting his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  never heard of "Intel", "Westinghouse", or "IMO" before coming to MIT. I ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... been to the IMO or at least the USAMO or have won some science

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008