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

  

  that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... writing up the paper, I had a reasonably big brain idea, which I actually ... sections that you wind up with: Abstract: the tl;dr of your paper, where

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  ?" was exactly what Dad had tried to teach me growing up. Acknowledge those ... general "hood nigga shit."  However, as I grew up I realized people will ... after an eight year battle with cancer. I wouldn’t give up these memorials

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Others, like Rhino and SketchUp, have associated plugins that'll do it. To ... "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chop up your vegetables in evenly sized

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I cleaned up my ideas and added some formatting, and thus this blog post was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... either side of us. Eating lunch during chemistry lecture. Staying up late ... up all night alone and ate an entire box of clementines. I don’t think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  set of them. Up until now, MIT has been a fun, relatively informal ... , telling myself to study, and telling myself to not give up. My parents act ... . End of story. Don't kid yourself or come up with excuses, you don't have

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3 occasions. I would skip meals reasoning that I'd got up late, so I didn't need

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... up to orientation and all the Adult things I needed to keep track of ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... gather a group and sign up. So when Jebby did all the hard work of securing

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  closes with him coming up with I’m Still Standing, where it shows him ... that time, I was preparing to return to MIT, wrapping up my work at ... to come—I was just beginning to pick up the pieces of my life, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  event convinced me that ESP was pretty cool and I decided to show up to ... to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align ... went to a second worksession. That night, I helped put up the posters

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  was tough, but I made some friends, and learnt to cope up with the new ... showed up in my college performance. The professors liked me, my social ... hoping to talk to her and patch up things with her, but that day was Lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  editing, cups Catching Up || VEDA #21 – voiceover recording, s0 much w0rk ... pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... , it doesn't look like I've been keeping up with dailyvlogs. Especially

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... from me, smiling and holding up a book she had written. While this was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  regular at the Brain and Cognitive Science colloquium; running up to the ... well as other regular attendees by cornering people to ask follow-up ... , and staying up late night after night is really dumb and unproductive

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

  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 ... , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working ... breakup, pacing in the parking lot of one of the endless plazas that make up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the ... , however, I caught up with my cousins and by default that means going to bed ... remember?    Bryan: Honestly, it was probably me dreaming up an

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

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... up the stairs to get a higher seat since sitting in the front scares me ... Building 38. We had a pretty basic task of setting up our embedded system (an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... and how you ended up here. Imagine how different your life would've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week ... updated map up sometime later this year!

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017