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

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine ... spacious. There are rooms for both the quiet and the conversational. In this ... 1880s. WXGS welcomes you wholly as you are and encourages you to be your

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , and some days are harder than others. There are some mornings when it’s difficult to force yourself out of bed, and there are some nights when you ... asked the ec-discuss mailing list where people have cried/recommend crying

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  locations in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. All of these services are free ... 't apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are required to live on ... ="fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups"]FSILGs,[/annotation] which are mixed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  percent.” It made me feel like this was a place where people had each other ... —here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you ... where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most ... or Informatik students to ask what the courses are like and hope that ... Course 2, and you are reminded that you're dealing with the Swiss, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  are, cannot match. City living can have its own specific challenges ... scene is HMart, which many bloggers have posted about, and where I also ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  I'd leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are important as you navigate the next four years. I hope that some of them are ... around when you are most productive and creative. If you're nocturnal and

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  , and we write again. Sometimes our assignments are as simple as a seven ... , domestic violence, and miscarriage), you've made them real. They have lives ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are some of the pieces i made during that class: [carousel image1 ... for a bunch of makerspace trainings, which are free and available here ... “there are so many ways to be a spider”.[annotation note="adam told me

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

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today ... remember important parts of my youth fondly, but the minute details are

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... go deeper into the topics and learn more. Unless you are a math major ... 's 2 options for this: 6.100A / 6.100B are 2 coding classes that fill

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... trees are all flowering just like they were, and the weather is sunny but ... hosed now. My classes are all different, of course, and so much else is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  ), Jane, Edward, Gage, Heine[/caption] 2.009 was a blast. We made balloon ... about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second ... on a team in this way — where we’re all passionate about what we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  can help show others that they, too, are free to be themselves around ... conversations where you are explaining your identity can be exhausting. The whole ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp ... . I was given one with a squid made from fractals! There were 33 other

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  might actually be pizza. And there are several places where you can read ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  that the ‘Other people are better than me’ simply got stronger. From the ... . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math ... them. In fact, 90% of your questions are questions other people had too

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tried not to cry when my co-workers made good-natured jokes about my ... in a minute. Good news- we've made it to the Turning Point of the ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  station, and made notes about where he could’ve saved time. It took him 9 ... station, and to get to MIT from the airport (for free!). We are not visiting ... of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020