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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... be happy" [annotation note="First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes"]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow-colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series of Firefly, which I got for Christmas, with my sister - Seen King Kong

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... prospective students of the obvious merits of MIT?" Campus Preview Weekend (CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... 's (MTL) annual conference, featuring two days of MIT students presenting ... underestimated the difficulty of snowboarding, which I quickly realized as I fell

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... , but just kind of maybe her). The fact that I am here is mindblowing ... . After that there are three planned projects of unknown length, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  student here: $300 per day. (Big clarification–MIT offers one of the most ... [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a lackadaisical pace, gazing around at the trappings of academia and stopping to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  proof of vaccination. Appointments like these usually make my social ... out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the ... gathered around numerous booths set up along the walls of the library

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my fellow adMITs. my daily routine consisted of waking up, making a matcha

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019