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

  

  .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT ... : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... four years and all the things that college had given me and I was at a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... discussing it.  Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think ... Cape Cod, not-so-pretty shots of mac and cheese, an attempt at a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... right fit at MIT until I talked with my CPW host Erica, the most amazing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... tremendously at MIT kept a regular 10 PM to 7 AM sleeping schedule all four years ... own sleeping schedule....let's just leave it at that :) I never did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... , rather than MIT directly. It's almost like that with being Premed at MIT. II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... version has one digit more.   At MIT, lecture is supplemented by recitation, led by TAs (Teaching Assistants). At Harvard, this work is done in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar detection/navigation (perfected at MIT durign WWII) Texas Instruments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... spot at Baylor Med School), but my four days at MIT convinced me that MIT ... that a B at MIT wasn't the be-all-end-all of their med school ambitions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... look at my shoes. I was thinking that I was glad that I wasn’t alone, and ... receptionist at the desk gave me some forms to fill out, so I busied myself with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017