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

  

  STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to ... , the Margaret Cheney was smaller and many repairs needed to be managed ... to occur, and working with MIT leadership, allowed the space to be

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go ... 'd actually be a paragraph in a giant book about the Taj Mahal. I had to take a

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

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

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... a little beyond the standard "it's okay to make mistakes") it is not ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... self to be seen, knowing that someone on the other side might embrace you ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  the idea at first. When you come to MIT, you will often find your people ... to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... college. Try not to become nocturnal, despite The Blogfather’s advice. You

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... decided to marathon the Lord of the Rings films (extended edition, of course ... my life. I have yet to regret that decision. The movie was incredible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  "]REX[/annotation]committee. Under some amount of wishful thinking, I apply to be co-chair of the ... RSI experience had offered me the first chance I had ever had to be ... of this disparity seems to be that even though we'd provided the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as ... to, because we know the reality that less than 1 out of every 10 will ... into the admissions process, we'd be able to say "yes" to so few. Sleep

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  elevation that the room had to be oxygenated; I asked X-ray telescopes in low ... to some extent -- you’ll be influenced by circumstance and will make ... can and should be fun and rewarding.   6. To learn the difference

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• 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! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

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

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  /dance/yoga breaks. Don’t think that you have to be working or occupied all the time ... graduation, mostly because I knew that Mitra was going to be across the bay ... ’Sync, breaking up and not even getting an invite to the JT’s wedding. The three of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  some context in the area you're researching, what you're going to be ... : you end on why your work is important, and what you're going to be doing ... the ones you read will be full papers. Other common tracks are student

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  trying to grasp, to understand the situation. Why? The question of why this ... explaining "Chechnya Is Not the Czech Republic”, next to immigration debate ... own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on

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

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  straight to the bathroom. I could hear the water running as she seemed to be ... , the obstacles in whatever form they may be will make you stronger in the ... , which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.      You may strive to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  this is not intended to be a "model essay" (I think the ending can use ... will be able to contribute my efforts to the field of public health ... that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by what seemed to be widespread confusion. When I was a kid, I recall ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , so I learned Shanghainese from being with her). When I first went to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go ... actual black person. With no black person to explain why the n word, to a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  the in-ear ones, and I usually grab them when I’m going to be sitting ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... you want to pretend to be working. Headphone Cable - One of the things

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015