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  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... graduate school in biology at a time when a lot of my friends from high ... discarded because of my gender -- people at MIT just aren't like that. As long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... evaluation of every class she taught at MIT. She deserved a tribute video. And ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... room and see if we could find pieces of ourselves reflected back at us ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... at the end of the day. We're so cool that we were not only one of the ... at a corner of the table, not distrubed by the lack of attention

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  with my glasses on. This time I aimed at the bottom of the bull’s eye, at ... at hand, not the pressure of the tasks coming up. I try to do my best ... . Look at the long game. A lot of times we get all focused and wound up on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  examination at MIT, and I didn't feel a sense of relief. Just moments after the ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section ... impress your guests at cocktail parties with the precise names of all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... others of you are stuck in that frustrating and seemingly interminable

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how ... of my weekly schedule instantly popped out at me: Weekdays 7

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... of committee and various checks and balances. At the end of the process

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

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... could handle a light load, so I could at least get a couple of my GIRs out

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  , aeronautical, and nuclear engineering, all of which were pioneered at MIT ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ...  think it is something you can without a doubt overcome, and at the end of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... her about her experience teaching at MIT (and overall career/life, of ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... project -- some of my friends at other schools have had "research positions ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016