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

  

  During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  Writing after going to Ethiopia has always been impossible. When I was seven years old I took my first trip to Ethiopia with my family. My teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the place they want to spend their college years. The “weekend” itself starts ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

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

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

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 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

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

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... to “leave the room” so the committee members could deliberate. At 11

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

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read ... 't apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are required to live on ... just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find homes they cherish so much that they fight fiercely to protect them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020