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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  Studio: How to Design (2) I was able to explore a new field that I hadn ... approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each ... phenomena in neuroscience to computer science. I enjoyed how it was broken

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most ... maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... amazing in ways I can’t even begin to count. It’s so easy to fall into the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... list in my head of everyone who had done better than me to see how I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  planning and editing it and by how many people (also lots). I worked on it in ... blending is seamless. I’m in love with how the piece evolved and ended up ... like an orange.) My goals this REX are special and new: I’ve already

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  stress and fear about if I’m going to graduate and how I (can’t) afford ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... counterfactual reality of how I would’ve done, had I not improved my study habits

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  't quite emulate that in your own projects. But you can't keep improving ... is the only organ that can regrow large amounts of cells in vivo and ... , how I ended up talking to Elizabeth about helping out with some other

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... to figure out how to use it. In this project, I knew I wanted to focus

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  in this blog post, and I realized that unfortunately, no matter how ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  people in ESP, checking in on me, asking how I was doing, both from the day ... . It feels like I've grown. That much, I can tell. But in what ways, I ... Representations of Girlhood in Modern Cinema, Lambda Calculus and Puzzles, how 2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  smoothly. BUT: I hadn't thought at all about how I would feel in the days ... , so I had 'em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could ... could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... sphere. I think it can be easy to continue in college mode, when your ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

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

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  listening and praying the rosary (I can't help it I'm Catholic after all) in ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself ... already know why he isn’t getting to them. He isn’t sure how to start. I ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011