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

  

  attend something very cool: my very first academic conference! And also as ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for

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

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  appreciation for people like Brian Greene and Oliver Sacks, who are great ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a knack for delving into scientific fields and then writing about them. If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs. Professors and PSets Thing? Yea that never ended. But all it takes is a few

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... , because both EC and BC didn't have air conditioning in individual rooms and ... (Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups) rent their available

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  surrounded by people who excel in every corner of the universe, and no longer ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to him tell his life story to me and talk about what he wants to do after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  of depression and extremely brief mentions of suicide and self ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... beautiful blog post about being depressed and handling depression at MIT that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... visualized a banana, and I probably never will. I made the connection between this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... internships that are available, and also the ones that are most relevant to me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  interviewed Chris E. '21 and Alex H., Florida State '21, and they were teaching ... post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  September 2nd The round tables are blue, yellow, and green this year ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and life experiences, and we’re here to talk tips and tricks, to tell the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  ” and out of state school I applied to. During the college app cycle a ... current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... polling my friends to find out where they like to study on campus and what ... chairs and stable desks nobody gets annoyed if I talk while working with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  like i am at my limit, that i have overcommitted this summer, and that ... , this entire quarantine has been a blur, and i remember almost nothing in ... . somehow, the past month has felt simultaneously tortuous and unrewarding, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , he must also do them from a firm and unchanging state. The many ... papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  people you could have lingered with. and you will wish… that the universe ... ’m studying math and philosophy. You don’t like either of those subjects yet, but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021