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

  

  important to at least acknowledge the nuance that comes with gender and fields ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... Cormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  document, and I tried for several hours to determine which variables could ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  topics I wouldn’t devote a whole post to, but consider important as ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  time. At this point, I was no stranger to sleeping less than four hours ... your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  REALLY important to your MIT experience. Don't stress if you don't feel ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  'm trying to form a coherent story for What Happened. Where's the guide that ... this room a nice place to live in, and all these hours of memories and ... from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  leave your hall. Of course it’s also super important to make friends with ... flip side, don’t spin your wheels for ten hours either. Talk to your ... and more interesting. Go to office hours. You will finish your psets

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... possible thing. Prioritizing is key and it’s important to prioritize yourself

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... friendships from past endeavors that remind me of things important to both of us ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  things to do from 8am to 1am, all jam-packed into about seventy-five hours ... to finish. (Example: I once made a 48-hour schedule of things I had to ...  from juggling things that I would be unable to get out of bed for hours, unable to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  exactly why it’s important to know about depression, and how to live with or ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... holds my traumatic adjustment phase. Determination to push myself further

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  night 3-hour Wednesday meetings when all I wanted to do was to go to sleep ... some assignments, and went to office hours for a different class that is ... disturbing history, is important.) When office hours finished at 3pm, I went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  us do basic unit conversions (i.e. minutes to hours) to find how long ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  which have lasted for hours, floating from topic to topic. There used to ... important because many of us owe a lot to the people who have supported us ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ,[/annotation] because I want to think about the Hunt in a context bigger than fifty hours ... was to "make solvers the drivers of important events". This is done ... overwhelmed those first few hours of the Hunt that I had to take a break, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ ... four hours in. But now we get to tackle the real beast—the Green Line

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