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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (oh, by the way: the first few weeks of freshman classes involve A Lot ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research ... in the future I'm in the process of writing a few more papers right ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  "Chemistry of the Metals". They are as described by their title: literally the ... numbers. The alumni directory of this catalog refers to the courses by their ... beginning of the catalog once, and then again later on, sorted by department

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  by stupid luck. Simply being at MIT, of course, increased the ... process of gradual burnout. I got A's because I worked towards the ... admissions processes ahead of me. Now it's internship applications, and then

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  renewal process. Being a member of Transition Team was pretty emotionally ... My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  the reality of MIT after all. Trust that the admission process rejected ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had ... exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017 ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high ... in the process of discovery. Because of this, I ended up at a musical

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  yourself when I was deciding. Part of its thesis is that we are changed by ... I went to was staffed by an older version of me, who'd list all the ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about ... in college. My excuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital ... Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to ... winter jackets indoors and spent a week huddled by the warmth of the ... during Campus Preview Weekend, mesmerized by the type of students I saw. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  panelists words together loosely, interrupted by my own. Below are some of the ... transformational kind of process to transform our society, transform our fear into ... shame, all of that fear, all of that stigma, is created by a society and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  . This one was also taught by some of my friends. Three of them, in fact ... , energizing class that gave me a little more energy to power through the rest of ... PM, Splash had a teacher appreciation dinner. By then, most of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , liberated from the pressures of not having cured cancer by your 18th birthday ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... doing. --- By all the metrics I’ve fallen short of in the past, this ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  huge as the night sky. As part of my grieving process I took a two ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone ... my life. I got my first taste of Indian cuisine this semester, however ... because of the spiciness than anything else. While i had to keep chugging

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  schoolwork by making these single-afternoon art projects. Most of them are ... wrote up an elaborate set of by-laws and devised a ranking system and I ... paid so.. sort of counts?) and by volunteering at this community

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015