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

  

  ! With this blog post, I'm pulling inspiration from something that Prof. Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I'm ... things considered, I’m doing pretty good! I got my first dose of the COVID

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm ... in the future I'm in the process of writing a few more papers right ... - because I'm not physically at the conference, I would sometimes tend towards

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  calling. I haven't blogged in forever. I need to reply to that email. I'm ... chainsaw outside? I am not sure what's going on in this class. I'm typing ... and the clementine I'm eating burns. My mother is a fish, Jewel

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full ... hungry. When I’m ravenously hungry, I feel like I could eat everything ... fullness. Now that I’m (fortunately!) doing a lot better, I remember only the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . Together with photographer PJ I’m covering Residence EXploration, a multiple ... have it). **** Quite possibly the most terrifying moment of my life (I’m ... suddenly I’m no longer surrounded by people. Someone is helping their baby

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... post-MIT) experience. Identifying as a hipster-sans-the-fashion, I'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

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

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  . I'm reaching to the edge of my abilities and seeing what's there. This ... classes to try and find where my academic interests lie. I'm taking as many classes as I can to see where the limits of my workload lie. I'm taking hard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  , messaging David, telling him I’m here. One. David arrives. We walk to the ... things are easier said than done. And I’m afraid that even if I tell myself ... what I’m feeling is this quote from one of the lectures I went to during

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  I'm writing this blog post's introduction from an Amtrak train ... York City. I always manage to overheat when I travel, so I'm only wearing ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="86710" /] 6th Floor I'm a 6th floor devotee. I romanticized it so much last year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it

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

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  medical decisions, and I'm sure that's reduced my capacity to make as many ... suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I'm even there is astounding, the fact that I'm passing classes is ridiculous ... , chemistry, and biology. I used to loathe physics but I'm slowly warming up to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in ... , and I’m trying to find ways to deal with this sudden loss of purpose. If I’m not working out to get stronger and faster on the soccer field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I’m ... Harvard, Wellesley, Babson, Tufts, (and a bunch of others that I’m probably ... ="102008" /] We do lots of events across Boston is what I’m trying to say. Some

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  know what? I'm ready for something to be different. I think, for the first time, I'm ready to take this next step. But it's still terrifying ... : I'm still ready to apply. But it makes it less scary. Less mysterious

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  extremely nice room and i’m very glad that i live in it. Not only could I name ... 2021 to now: CJ Q. '23. CJ is, well, me. I'm currently living in the room. I'm majoring in math and computer science. Spring 2020: Andy T. '23

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  . Because I’m a stubborn pedestrian, and because [annotation note ... own feelings. Before I begin, I think I have to provide some context: I’m ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• 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…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... you missed it, which I'm pretty sure you didn't, MIT EA comes out this ... heroes of any story I'm in"]My mom helped,[/annotation]the blankets helped

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• 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…

  

  when I'm still constructing my immediate future -- which has, at the ... reaction. I'm quintessentially neither any set of failures nor any set of successes, and I'm hardly any more or less deserving of praise or respect even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014