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

  

  providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

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

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... built a freakin' nuclear reactor didn't get in to MIT, what chance do they ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  sometimes. I'll probably post the video and then try to get a little more ... life and things, but I still need to get around to doing a last couple ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a ... . It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate ... a short response to a reading about the (surprisingly) heterogeneous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... , trying to get a clear picture of what I wanted career-wise. I was involved ... transferring to MIT, I pursued a sophomore year in Mechanical Engineering at

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  to a video of students who celebrated the capture in the streets of ... violence tend to follow in a vicious cycle that is so so hard to break ... was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... can send him an email and get a reply in less than 5 minutes. So one ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... off in a film on their own after you soak them, and cleaning is easy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’s no chance of getting in when secretly your heart/brain/stomach is ... confidence in yourself and your abilities and your passions to throw your name into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  lead to a lot more than an admissions decision. If you get in on ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all projects turn out, and not all grants get accepted. In order to succeed you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta ... that all the things left behind in this room won't get passed down to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  , in order to understand my past as a proto-software engineer, I’ll start ... materials and doubling in courses 8 and 3, or wanting to become a filmmaker ... to fly in August 2021, with a handover date for final testing in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  be great! You aren't afraid to throw in an application to a school that ... recommendation are vital. It's a great idea to chat with your recommenders and think about what you'd want them to include in your letters and gauge how

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... -handed Uber drivers. Yep, I'm going to get a job. That's the conclusion. Egad ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  . Money can't buy a pivotal moment to crush to smithereens your bad habits ... anchor. In swim class I realized that floating on your back gets difficult ... need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... in March, to just take a moment and think. I remember high school

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008