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

  

  I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them really…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  Continuing my tradition of posting appropriate blog posts five months in advance, here’s considerations on picking classes and schedules. This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera-wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment, then return to their conspiratorial…

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  them valid. I told myself I was dissatisfied with the wrong research, a ... chance I return to finish my master's degree, because there's research I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  there too many times to count :) I even did research there! =p 31. Take a ... a living. The undergrad research opportunities here are AMAZING though

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  discussing my research with postdocs and grad students in my lab. My history thesis took me on research trips to Washington DC (at the National Archives

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

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the west parallel⁠12 EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other of East…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  her own research, her pastor and bishop shared their experiences with ... Nikayah about D9 organizations, she took it upon herself to do more research ... learned early on in her research that these organizations would be a part of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  guest speakers to talk about their research or careers or whatever is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  research science is done in a very different society. The only thing that

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  research you’re doing for a paper, and almost anything else. Vim, a popular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  weren't these all 800s?!), a lack of research experience, a lack of non

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  research, did well (enough) in my classes, and had a lot of fun. And for a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  humanities and social sciences: While teaching and research in engineering have ... interaction of science and its applications with industry and research in the ... right now? Will a researcher at MIT CSAIL design an artificially

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  visiting friends and doing preliminary research for my undergraduate thesis ... knew from my friends and my research that it was going to be. This was an ... for a PhD. I had spent two years researching programs and thought I had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  . Works for APUSH essays - works for research papers - but the college essay ... with a research paper. A research paper is structured thus because you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008