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

  

  ! Experimental Design: describe the system components of the experiment and how ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to

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

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... popular of my ideas was an adjustable platform boot that could lift a person ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  worked on, but it certainly involved a lot of code. Design is also involved ... words are a big part of web design! Writing instructions, choosing names ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse ... looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling, pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... staggering other array of readers ranging from my old grade school teachers to ... on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If ... ’ was my identity for all of grade school both in Ethiopia and America ... my senior year of high school, I got close to a sophomore in my Spanish

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during iap, or maybe near the beginning of spring. but even then, that feeling ... of june has felt like a blur. i don’t feel like anything really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  live, was thinking of having a "high school dance" party, where we'd all ... choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  m.701, drawing for designers. the class gave me a brief window of time ... , finance, or grad school may see their grades having more of an impact on ... classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a diverse group of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  school English Lit. education in order to install diskloads of nerdly lingo ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  have learned to accept in my own life of applying for grad school and ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture here. Students pitch in their talents and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  parents and me in the US until my sophomore year of high school. I could go ... volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... . Never before have I experienced such intense feelings of belonging and joy

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023