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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  : you end on why your work is important, and what you're going to be doing ... now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... * strict page limits, and certain formatting or syntax errors can get you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted ... , because it hurts and it can't do things it usually can. When I went to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  of the year was a complaint on Facebook, and truthfully, I can’t even ... future, but instead I can only spectate through lines and words on the web ... and Pokemon with my cousins, and spent hours on the internet. I entered

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and ... History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’m working on right now is the most important thing that I could be doing and ... ;   And I know, that I wanted to be faster, smarter, to do all the ... don’t need my value and worth be lessened because of the things I’m not

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... material on my own. I bombed the first exam and got an email asking if I ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... picture from my seat on the bus without looking too strange.   9:56am ... was going to be on a panel at SDCC, which she then found) over Tumblr

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the bounds of my imagination on what can be done in pursuit of ... benefited from experiencing more of mit while i was on pnr, and the advice ... can generally be relied on to do certain things is quite valuable as

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  , and that everything will be okay. Where’s the humanity in the art on ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... , and happily changed the subject—“You should go on a lab tour where I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  awesome human beings on the planet. His unwavering kindness, ethics, and ... ; at the time, it was basically a couple of text-only pages and not very ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  edge, and a half-inch margin on the outer edges." The paper size is a bit ... beginning of the catalog once, and then again later on, sorted by department ... seems like the closest would be 6-1 or 10. « 1895 Schools and courses

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... be working on my thesis instead, so I stop blogging and revert to ... originally sign up for four and three-quarters, putting the last class on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  program fake robots in a simulator…with the final competition being run on ... excited for—and I’m giving a talk on plane crashes to one of our internal ... you—and as confusing as that sometimes will be, you can find it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set ... and the traffic closing on the east side due to the plane crash; there ... great and I think the questions and discussion would have gone on all

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... be on the other.  I was thinking as I walked back from lab about how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009