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

  

  I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not in the Chinese-language post, and additionally, some things in the ... , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs ... one of those classes that reminds students why they came to MIT in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in labyrinthine pastures, then (b) spending the next six hours buried elbow-deep in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... came from Turkey than from Texas. In 1909, President Maclaurin began his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  my lunch. C) Tech Catholic Community's annual fall retreat in ... visits MIT E) It was an unusually gorgeous day in December (it got into ... friend Maita '13 (her feet featured in Fig. 1C) decided to add a little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  for people who are interested in scavenging for free food in random ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European ... it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin's case, The Tube) until both we and the pterodactyls in our stomachs were ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges, share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020