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

  

  watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich ... campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges

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

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  classes, which is boothing. Boothing consists of smiling at people when ... the sound of a wake-up phone call. I checked in at the Bush Room and ... came to play the game at least once, and of those, three people played it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... automatic slideshow at the bottom that shows off pictures of our alarm clock ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  that. all i wanted, at that moment, was to write a single line of code ... know when it’s coming. you’re sitting in front of your laptop, staring at ... hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or

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

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  three-course meal cook-off at the end of July, which would be judged by my ... mostly a product of his environment and upbringing, he still, at the very ... . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... Photographer taking the survivor photo at St John's Another great perk of ... who helped me overcome many obstacles during my first two years of MIT. At

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  depicts the emotion of NOT HAVING IT… because I most certainly was not at ... one of my friends Charlotte M. 20’ was presenting at!!! Good thing there ... sure that at least that part of our presentation got heard! All of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Cape Cod, not-so-pretty shots of mac and cheese, an attempt at a ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  make the choice between enrolling at MIT or one of our similarly ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage ... Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• 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.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... also has a host of other talents): Now, take a look at this ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• 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.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... 'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about the comfort of knowing there's at least one thing out there that I ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... was academics. It was the feeling of running freely and openly at MIT to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... the end of classes. I teared up at the Black graduate celebration, at ... felt instinctively like "family". Students and donors at a table of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  myself looking at dozens of issues over dozens of years, digging through ... efforts were necessary, because at the time, a smaller proportion of ... recommendation of a committee that parties be shut down at 1 AM, which I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021