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  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... nice because most of them pay for medical school, but they're definitely ... Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  shimmying. It would have to be worthy of a film school submission. The ... as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  of anything other than more school had never crossed their minds ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  sun-drenched, flip-flop-friendly sidewalks of that other school in ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of ... school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  of high school complaining about bio objectives (weekly bio homework ... -knit high school. But then of course, once you became a sophomore it was all ... got straight A's in high school and had a blast doing all of my random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  , and by my senior year of high school I understood that there were more ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  at MIT these past two years) was taking care of some business at the ... covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth ... maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sorority. Laurie is currently in the process of applying to graduate schools ... CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of thin layer of insulating material called Kapton sandwiched between two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... so busy learning ALL of the basics. (And with a field so broad, there ... . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... idea is that students in England come out of high school (or Sixth Form ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  Program to support students in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts ... all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... -MIT adventures, I have less to offer you. But! I still know undergrads! I bumped

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022