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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing ... have UBER simplified some genetics concepts in this explanation. I want

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in

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

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... builds character. 37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson ... of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i ... , easily found a way into my heart. in our meetings throughout my first

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  an entire month, because we went in the winter during the dry season ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments.  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  experiences.   I was waiting in line with my head more or less glued to ... covered leopard printed Nike 97s, long black earring, and gold chain was in ... ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  dome-shaped reality in the smoldering heat of the summer. September ... than ever before, in the form of taking five classes in my first semester ... exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd ... the only thought in my head was “I thought we would have beautiful

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

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

  

  told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that ... lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... though my heart is being pulled in too many directions at once. My Pi Day

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019