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

  

  lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich ... what has been. It‘s complicated. But, this blog is not about that (perhaps I‘ll post another one about these thoughts, specifically). As is

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

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  season. One of my biggest lessons of 2015 (and 2014 and 2013 and 2012) is ... Middle Earth or Discworld or National City. Tonight is Old New Year’s Eve (the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar), which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... truth is - and I think it's pretty clear, both from living on this campus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in ... ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... those entries, an entry that explains what hacking is and what experiences ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  -Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one floor is "better" than another - as they're all so different - I feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It ... beyond the dense trees crowding the river and parks. The spring is cold

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... detailed explanation, see Snively ‘11’s post from 2009.) This rule is a huge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out ... helped, but is not necessary) MIT was the most helpful in figuring out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... make it have a height, and thus, the cube is born. You can also input ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably ... thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is

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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... say with confidence that this is a peaceful and loving city. When I ... passed away in the line of duty. A friend of mine, who is also a friend of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science, and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  blogs instead  # I took this class called 8.022, which is electricity and ... is maybe intelligible, perhaps relevant, hopefully not too [annotation ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day ... recommendation <3 She is very awesome! :) He's just an objectively wonderful ... fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... to undertake whatever course of action in life is most meaningful to ... protest is being held, explicitly or implicitly, over the heads of our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... difficult (and still is difficult), but I did it. And I called every school I ... do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014