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

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of McCormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  series on scp, and binged a bunch of videos from brian jordan alvarez the ... up on my shoulders like clay dropping from the sky. by the end of ... , i did nothing. i spent all day on discord. i solved a handful of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... week ago, I wrote a note on the front cover of my current notebook ... This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... 'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... smell of the boxes I lived out of for weeks and the Junior Mint factory on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• 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

  

  ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... on all sides by enormous MIT buildings and think of all the cool shit ... format. Some of these went [annotation note="if you know..you know

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Harvard, of words. Even PHIL 179 becomes HAA.2457 on my transcript. The MIT ... on Education, one of the requirements is classroom observation. Each ... by following the event on their website here!

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... from yourself. That feeling, that feeling of growth is a new one. And it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . December 14th was the day. The Ultimate Day On Which I Learn Of My Rejection ... convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  one on the art end of the visual storytelling production pipeline. But ... while we will miss out on and oddly* miss part of that ... described^) is the stuff that the majority of MIT students do on a weekly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through ... moment with the new and improved lexicon of this day and age, I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... on the idea of having the social robot play different NPC (non ... , the biggest criticism of saying that a robot has a beneficiary effect on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  rather than through individual initiative on the part of the student, or ... the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... very flexible about creating new or different life groups depending on ... the credibility of the Gospels and the Christmas Story, and on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community ... , and there wasn't anyone actually on the grass, so I got a full view of ... importance of teamwork and relying on others, or how to make decisions that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020