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  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... cop, or a dog kennel owner. Growing up, I always liked math, but when I ... once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was Delve, an AP preparation course run by ESP for area high schoolers. More

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars ... what informed my class choices this fall. Here's the tentative line-up ... for Undergraduates) SENIOR FALL 8.033 (Relativity) 8.287 (Astronomy Lab

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  subject, but if someone comes up with a good chemistry question I'll take a ... limited understanding of it, so I'll have to ask some Course 6-ers for help

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  gifts for loved ones. Don't be the kid rolling up on Christmas Day with a ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... herder, and come up with convoluted algorithms that calculate your chances

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and ... catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  few things. But I'll have to save those for another post because we have ... Wednesday, but for now let's just pretend so we can annoy Mikey. P.P.S. Sorry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  slipped my mind that I was supposed to dress up for these kinds of things. I ... entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... wanted to be an engineer and just accidentally ended up on this path which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  for.. I don't even know what. I make this up as I go along. Last time I ... they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are ... notable thing that happened to me this weekend was standing outside for 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  helped fixed my sleep schedule, at least for now, before classes ramp up ... tanked my mood for the day. These classes were exactly aligned with my ... rendered most of them inaccessible for almost two years anyways. But alas

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I no longer have to cook for myself. I haven’t yet decided whether or ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own ... to my point. I no longer have to cook for myself. This semester marks

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4 ... luckily Paradorn learned to read Andy's serve and the game heated up. In the end, Andy won 7-6, 6-2 (and he later beat James Blake for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  house in time for the cooking day. 3. Show up on the day, and ensure that ... 't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... has a very organized cooking system. The 25-or-so members are split up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... are practically sporting events, with grown men jockeying for position ... I did most of the baking for my family, my mom actually did most of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the ... considering my parents' place) i stayed here for, in total, two years, which ... 't be on campus for a while i'll be in et, and the next time i'll be back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  yeah, after staying up for 30 hours and working for 22 of those hours ... , going for a Guinness world record for largest/most pies (way too big ... used volumes to scale up normal pie recipes. After we had our ingredients

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  : yeah, i think it’s common for these kinds of narratives to become very totalizing and for people to decide to only focus on one component. clearly ... : wow, i actually like this framework a lot p: for what it’s worth, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... trumpet (take a look in the mirror while blowing up a balloon, and you'll see what I mean). Nine years later (NINE YEARS? I'M SO OLD) I signed up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day ... growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it ... with sleep deprivingly awesome events for an entire weekend. Good luck

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010