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• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Engineering), and as far as I can tell, they were all quite happy with their ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... watched it during a phase in my life where I truly believed that all art had ... film so amazing? Well, I can give you a basic pitch. Mamma Mia! is a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only ... that dream. I would continue the simulation in my mind until I fell

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  (and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  're actually in your presence, words unfortunately can't do it justice. But being around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn ... will be on August 12th. In the meantime, I'll probably be fighting off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis. I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  can apply. right after i get my scores? i have 2 more years in ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  you can donate directly to the China Relief Fund, here. I hope ... I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... the issues it addresses. In his words, “I thought it might resonate with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all ... . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... MIT, I know that many of you are currently in the midst of choosing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  fact that I can not swim. I visited Soweto, the largest township in South ... post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... whenever i try to be productive on campus. i can't really explain it. it ... it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  watching what groups they self-arranged in. I also didn't fully understand ... in quaint ponds. When we reached the province of Nova Scotia, I ... movie projector while soaking in the Airbnb jacuzzi. I slept well that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021