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

  

  time swimming in Brazilian rivers or researching in Fiji. It doesn't get ... life goals? My parents said I couldn't take a job as a crab fisherman on

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

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  didn't make this one long enough to have proper leverage, so it only ... : due to the odd T-shape, it was hard to heat the necessary sections of ... sections to ensure that they didn’t break off, too. [carousel image1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the ... class, but you can’t make them pay attention, as she demonstrates by half

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

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  some crazy….creative….????.... modern art…. line drawings. I don’t really

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one-off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women, hence why the next big change didn‘t occur until more than a decade later

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  – not because they didn't think of good solutions. These are expected errors when you can't see what you're writing. VI. Family Feud East Campus

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  amount of hours on racing rig (Go McLaren—although they aren't doing that ... seemed like a real option before because I didn’t think I’d get accepted ... supported me throughout my time there and paved opportunities that didn’t

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

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  classes. I couldn’t decide which five classes to keep, so I included all ... it. I love 2.009 because it has high stakes in ways other classes don't ... ; Development(1) people don't give the non 2.009 course 2 capstones enough

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  you don’t. And one of my favorite quotes from the blog that resonated ... opportunities you don't know anything about but seem exciting to you. Definitely don’t, however, use this as a checklist of things you have to do to get

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... take the T to Malden Center, and buy lunch at this Chinese place I know ... Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  working on something, though I wouldn't always call it "studying." A student says that he doesn't think he's "smart" as much as he is hardworking ... , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn't

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I didn’t run, but I walked along the same path by the river and sat ... students. There were wonderful people and I probably won’t see them again

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... time, we read applications as they become complete, and we don't stop

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Graff, Charlotte Barthwaithe, Natalie Lin Douglas, Lynn Chang, Emma Teng, Ellen T

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  people at MIT say they don’t want to study abroad because they only have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  cases in advance, so we don’t know when this will be. However, decisions ... , since we haven’t seen the decision yet — is the question of whether or not ... different from mine will understand an applicant's context in a way I couldn't

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... SigEp - Sigma Phi Epsilon tEp - Tau Epsilon Phi OX - Theta Chi TDC

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  [/annotation] in half. The resulting images didn’t look too great, but at least they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023