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

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... , earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I ... science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... eleven classes in one year, finished my MCATs, and embarked on the ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  .) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet ... exhibits I have seen anywhere and is easily my favorite LVAC exhibit that I've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... social life and (dare I say it on the MITblogs) party scene. If you're done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... the new friends I made, and end with some sage advice that I would give ... 've sure learned a lot of lessons and made a lot of friends, but I've made

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston ... Chandler '13 and Taylor '13 Jonte '13 Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 ... weights, play football and help his dad with construction. But he's brainy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  . As has been explained a million times and will be a million more, MIT ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  interact with media is really important in the current state of affairs, and ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled ... kinds of weeks: hard weeks and slightly less hard weeks. during hard weeks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... extraneous backstory and distracting pop culture references, I was trying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  some core classes out of the way, including single and multivariable calculus, physics (mechanics and E&M), chemistry, and biology. No ifs, ands, or buts, you will take these classes (or pass out of them). There

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline-obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  their stated job description. Of all of the other duties I’ve been ... Underwater Robot and Extreme Karaoke to fire spinning and a Python bee. Think of CPW like the Olympic games, just with more math and fewer sports

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  head, explored my weird mushy state of being, and penned those words for ... all the power. And years later when I found myself in the United States ... ’ll be a great time constraint on difficult problems, and an attendant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... .   Here are what those numbers on the colored rectangles mean and why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... Psets, tests, and the horror of finals season, will be much deserved and ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  institutions.   I did this! You can read my liveblogs of the conference and ... I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I ... 's graduation dinner.     Tomorrow, I'll drive down to South Bay and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier ... “that is valued as a physical object above and beyond its value as a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015