I did some searching on Google to see who else was writing about MIT. Checking out the competition, you know! Here's what I found:
MIT blog: An MIT Masters student in Electrical Engineering who writes once every few months.
MIT admissions blogs: A semi-official set of blogs from the MIT admissions office, written by office staff and a set of MIT students.
MIT Sloan Technology and Innovation: An MBA student writing about MIT's business school.
A-List: By an MIT instructor, about `literacy, media and videogames.'
Thoughts on business, engineering and higher education: An MIT alumna, who's now a professor of Industrial Engineering.
From the Desk of Stinkpot: An MIT PhD student in Computational and Systems biology, who puts lots of pictures on his blog.
That's it! Given that there are over 10,000 students at MIT, I was expecting to find a 100 or more active blogs. I guess MIT students have better things to do ;-)
MIT is a unique place in many ways: there's stuff happening here that doesn't happen anywhere else. Where else do the buildings have numbers instead of names, or the campus tour guides talk of a history of assembling police-car replicas on top of buildings? I aim to capture this MITness in this blog. From the point of view of a grad student, in particular.
P.S. If you come across interesting blogs by students about the MIT experience, do let me know and I'll add them to this list.
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My former lab at MIT (LIDS) has started a student-run blog at http://www.lidsblog.typepad.com. Since it is a semi-official blog, I don't think student contributors really get in the details of life at MIT. I am sure having a student provide his perspective would be very helpful for many graduate students out there.
For instance, I have noticed that few students realize it's normal to have what I call a "third-year slump", when the novelty of graduate school has worn off but the end of the tunnel is not yet in sight. They are always very relieved when they learn grad school isn't five (six... seven...) years straight of peak performance. It is so important for people to find a way to share their experience.
I had a fantastic time at MIT overall, and yet I also had to deal with setbacks like everybody else - a paper that came back on the brink of rejection, one year of research that didn't go anywhere and looked like time wasted, the struggle to finish writing my thesis. Other people have had to change advisers mid-way or couldn't find a position in academia. Your blog should interest many people out there, at MIT and beyond! I'm looking forward to reading more!
-Aurelie Thiele
Thanks for the tips Aurelie. Yes, grad school at MIT can be uniquely challenging, and things like the 3rd-year slump are definitely fodder for this blog. I also want to highlight MIT culture and the quirky, fun side of MIT not too many people outside this place know about.
Many current and former MIT students post to the MIT LiveJournal community and have journals of their own.
What department are you in and what type of research do you do?
I know a number of my Sloan classmates have blogs although I can't seem to find them right now. www.xconomy.com is a great site that covers a lot of MIT tech news.
The MIT site recently added a blogroll of MIT blogs. Check it out at http://sliceofmit.wordpress.com/
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