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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... running around looking for the light switch, then ten minutes running around

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  books my airline tickets and hotel confirmation for my trip that ... motivation behind our team's product for the upcoming design pitches. Figure 3 ... experiments for my undergrad research project (UROP). I work for this guy on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... previews for movies that are coming out soon. Two of these movies probably ... " the wonderdog has extreme potential, see for yourself: 2) It REALLY

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  celebrate, get that energy out. You deserve it. =) For waitlisted applicants ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each ... Public Policy." I was like "wow, thanks guys, for announcing to the entire

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if ... it, but I've definitely not studied for finals by playing game after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... was for those involved, but it definitely worked...to an extent. And ... Sam pose for a picture in front of Burton-Conner. Notice that Sam is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  personalities of the students. thanks for any help anyone can give. estelphoenix ... step. For many students, CPW is the first time they experienced campus ... expected. I have a lot of options for college (harvard, brown, stanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... aforementioned mud flats[/caption] I did a little bit of reading for the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... bed. She asked me an interesting question: “what is your one wish for ... ’m excited for today; it’s going to be a wonder of a trip. Hour 47: 10:16 AM

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven ... , thanks for sticking around, and to new ones, I hope you’ve been enjoying ... really do feel so much better prepared for this year and beyond

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the ... idiots. That was just for practice. Then he made school boards

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... family actually grew up here so it was familiar for them! It was really ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not only being a whiz with anything electrical (or musical) but also for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  't used my time wisely at all. It feels like I've done nothing for this ... was much easier to do exceptional things and be recognized for it. Now ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024