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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  professional blogging career. How can I... ...get sophomore standing? The ... magical phenomenon called Reg Day, where you're required to physically go to ... Add Date), you have to get both the instructor's signature and your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  wasn't a good deal for me at the time. You get lab experience, you apply classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to put on your resume, you get direct contact with professors, and you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  place where you get to say "hey, I'm a human being, let me ... 's the best advice anyone can give to you. Your application is full ... perfect window into that person. You're the best only person who can

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  groups outside of Cruesdays where you can grow with a group of people. The ... you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get ... 👀), and you can get involved through: [email protected] Cru is also

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

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

  

  at a lot of different styles of cuisine and experiment, you can get the ... these are definitely heavy in the rotation. You can never get bored with ... Rhino, the software I'm most familiar with, you can use the Box command

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  where you live and hunt you down. Eek. Okay. I flew through the book in ... I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... end of the world. Even if you don't get into MIT, there is some place out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  ? Where can you get cheap textbooks*? Your classmates and upperclassmen in ... ), upperclassmen, or your TA. Figure out where you can get help, like where your TA ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  opposite sides of hallways. Because of that, once you know where the building is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you know where the building numbers are, you can navigate your way around MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you can just look up "[conference name][year] proceedings" and get an ... * strict page limits, and certain formatting or syntax errors can get you ... ! Writing the Paper For a paper like this one, where you create something and

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

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job ... three tines. As you can see above, my fork's lacking in general forkiness

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  have done to help you get to where you are, not only by telling them so ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard ... few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing (MIT ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... why you want to Do The Thing and to convince others you can Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I ... marker can make tracking it down at least possible. If you have a MacBook Pro, the power cord can get trapped between the screen and the keyboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  improvement / justice through bicycling. You can get involved with Bikes Not ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... layer - that can tell you which roads are safe, which roads are unsafe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... ’m around enough that I can actually get to know everyone, which I’ve really ... don’t we: Have you thought about where you’ll apply this year? So

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tuning in, Vassko asked, "Do you guys get some time to go out into Boston ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a number, and people can write you messages and put them in the mailbox

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  can't stop raving about you. And sometimes - as hard as we often try not ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... , and hypothesizing where you'll live and who you'll hang out with. (We

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  library. Halfway down the aisle you get turned around and can’t find the way ... past. We can help. Have you slept? Good luck. EC Gothic Nchinda N. '17 ... you have five psets. You don’t know where the extra pset came from or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• 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…

  

  the time I got home. Some days, you just can't do it, and it's not a negative reflection on you that you can't always be running at 100%. Some ... first semester of college and can't figure out why you keep forgetting

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