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

  

  Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT ... . ']MIT admitted its first woman: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards.[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT. I was devastated, but luckily, I still have many pictures to remind me of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . 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

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis first ;) so I'll just provide a brief update of what I've been up to ... : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , listening to the panelists. There’s actually a lot about my first two ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  out and had to read myself better. Some days (the first days) I let the ... ) I wished I could bring students back to Cambridge. My first weekend ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  keys and a book, and drive 18 minutes to west neck beach (had to look up ... convenient with respect to the current situation we all find ourselves in. if you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... – they’re fuzzy, often hard to express, and even harder to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... narrowed down the first essay from over 400 words to just 250. Chances are ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where

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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  , you don’t need to read it first, but it might help you to understand ... decision: undergrads that have decided to work first, people working at the ... discomfort, and am excited to fling myself head-first into it all this fall. To

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  shut down, I spent the first two weeks like everyone else, trying to ... 't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... 've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Infinite every weekday, slip into a touchdown space to listen to a zoom ... there is much to be said for learning lab safety first, and then getting to touch dangerous chemicals). The first module is spectroscopy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  important to train yourself to believe people as a first instinct rather than ... came to MIT, diversity was one of the first things I noticed. I remember ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having something close to complete control over my time, and any given day's workload

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

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

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019