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

  

  gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I ... introduce you to my next-door neighbor, Nora '12. An aspiring limnologist ... kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other

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

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  my school librarian. She asked me what I would be doing the next year ... . Anecdote 1: My family came to visit me about a year ago. My mom was always ... conversation. Anecdote 2: I left my purse on a city bus a few months ago. When I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... made my intestines hum melodies. The morning plowed its way through the ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman: "I made my first resume when I was six; I knew eight different programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  a temple of science.” Ending of First Light by Richard Preston My ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two hours and many questions later, I had reached my last slide and was asked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize ... to make a long story short, my senior year, I decided to start a ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... everyone was comparing me to my sister and pointing out my inadequacies. When

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ;   Part 8: Random Things I Did Instead of My Assignments and Studying ... : BU Expedition So at some point in the middle of the semester one of my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... ’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... , where my family is from[/caption] It holds sentimental value because it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  look at my shoes. I was thinking that I was glad that I wasn’t alone, and ... those. Another person came out later and collected my forms, glanced at ... Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... mild distress that come with being alone in a new place. My room faces

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

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  i participated in my last admissions telethon early last week! it was ... that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... work/life balance means. again, this depends on the person—some of my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my ... to stay warm and cozy in my (over)heated room while it whistled and ... lesson. "And I failed all my classes and got put on academic probation and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self-esteem and resolve my doubts, and some very deep, extensive introspection

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... you make it. Two years ago I got into MIT and Caltech. I also spent my ... , and I decided I couldn’t live that far away from my family for four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012