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  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  learned about MIT’s committment to gender equity during my summer research ... subject, and discovered a fascinating story about MIT’s efforts to combat gender discrimination among its women faculty in the 1990s. Below is an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  So it’s been cold lately. And when I mean cold, I mean like our-room-whose-temperature-usually-hovers-somewhere-between-the-sixth-and-seventh ... this is that when it’s cold, it snows, which is pretty much the best. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing the Academic Record page…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) – a DVD you will receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May), after you choose to matriculate.…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  Saul’s guest blog post about (extensive) MIT-supported China travels, I ... lists, since that’s how a lot of MIT student groups advertise). I figured ... later, I sent this e-mail to my mom: “I’m going to go, even though it’s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  sample size of four days that MIT’s legendary firehose was actually ... awesome. Here’s a preview, from two years ago:   ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It’s ... untouched, in the sense that it’s whole, or complete; compare intact, or ... mahal kita. It’s neat that kita is a pronoun that doesn’t just indicate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... . The commute to the Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, my UROP’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  : what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I ... direction. Oops. Danfoolery: A Radio Show There's a really deep and ... ?" "Dan that's ridiculous why would we do that" "Why not

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... !” there’s p-sets and a weather intent on killing me. Close enough. What’s the biggest change since becoming a sophomore? Oh, that’s easy. The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... promised him I’d be civil) of Luhrmann’s adaptation. Away we go! For those ...  was made in the 90’s by Baz Luhrmann (who also directed Moulin Rouge! and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  ). Jeremy, who will graduate in June with a B.S. and MEng in Course 6

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted to tell you some things before I go: Exactly two years ago, I was approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  Technology students do outside of learning?  In the late 1800s, they still

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  , but have a “20's Burger Bonanza.” Together, these make up the 600ish ... intermission). Alternatively, I’m delighted to watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can’t ignore, I find my weekly/fortnightly blogs slowly phasing themselves out. As such I thought I’d steal a simple…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  MIT is incredibly wired; wi-fi all over the campus. Students are likewise very into the Internet as you may have guessed, and as it should be in my opinion. I’m…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It’s that time of the year again — MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall 2005 issue! MURJ is a student-run journal…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Aristotle believed men had more teeth than women. It was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence from 10.302: Transport Processes.…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005