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

  

  is also the co-sponsor of the largest career fair on MIT's campus ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  recognition is largely focused on the reputation of faculties that have not only ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... in Baker but that year, I also joined ZBT, one of MIT's fraternities ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European ... that pretty much everybody is bilingual. No, really. A lot of people just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  (this year, it begins at sundown on March 19). In the interest of keeping ... , the hundreds of people in attendance were permitted to vote on the ... Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field – and well, I have lots of respect for their work. I hope MIT’s 7

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... . Given a chance, students often will combine two or more of these hobbies

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  on the presence or absence of dining (unless cost is an important ... will spend on the rest of your week's meals). This means the Pilot 2021 ... remainder of your weekly meals. So you’ll have to shop/budget/plan on your own

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense ... restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... immigrants, but truly experiencing it (even from the privilege of being on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  , to the strangers I made dinner with after a final, on a floor of East ... the feeling of snow on the ground, the feeling of being free and at home ... fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  kinds of impressions I would make on people, and whether they would hate ... don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three ... MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now ... on hand for an hour to answer all your CPW questions and give you a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  of Massachusetts it occured to me. While we're all focusing on Math and ... 't is because they might think it's outside of the scope of an admissions ... controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  . This feeling of utter panic manifested itself on the 6.005 Piazza site ... statement. I've spent an average of 6 hours each day (read: ~ 8 pm - 2 am) for the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  stuff, but I'm not a huge fan of mayonnaise so I figured I could ... random songs with the names of Pokémon.  Right before ... of Wikipedia golf. I don't know what rules people normally play by

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012