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business of making "women in engineering" into a big issue just makes a huge
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Blog / IAP
Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.
wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning -
Blog / Community Projects
Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…
(Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a busy week. Yeah, there were p-sets, but there were also crazy kitties. It -
Blog / MIT Life
Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.
. Chris's next door neighbor, Alex, was busy trying to hang his bike from -
Blog / MIT Life
Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.
The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!
woman who told me I couldn't take any more pictures, I got to business -
Blog / How to Human
remember me on family
couple years ago, maybe my sophomore year of high school, my mom told me ... my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my ... . They cooked for me. They did my laundry. They helped me with school -
Blog / About Decisions
We Were Deferred
MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for that. We read the blogs religiously throughout high school. We followed ... high school, questioned if our test scores were good enough, stressed if -
Blog / Challenges
then and now a reflection on the very bad
didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... killed herself." My mom found out about this and decided to switch schools ... school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had -
Blog / Advice
Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!
I had been reading the admission blogs all through high school purely ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... need-blind admissions schools, meaning you get awarded financial aid -
Blog / Academics & Research
11.125 educating myself on education
-centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... public schools that educate the majority of children, many of the points on ... ; We are also each assigned a classroom or two at a local public school -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... . Here I was, admitted to a fantastic school, the news of which had travelled around to extended family and my entire high school (it was a very -
Blog / MIT Life
Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch
, right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is ... . =================================== In high school, I spent a lot of time playing music. I was playing my beloved clarinet as well as marching competitively with my high school’s -
Blog / Uncategorized
Decisions, Decisions decisions!
professors at each school to find out which ones I might want to work with, but ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll ... , you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.
school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... 've always been an extracurricular fiend (Amnesty International, school -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions
might strike as perfect after circus school and this show." Haha, I don ... deciding what schools to apply to, how to fill out your application, and eventually, how to decide which school to attend. At each stage, a school -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."
-old daughter, Cristen, who just graduated from the elite Stuyvesant High School ... did well in school. She says that she doesn't know why. She shares a ... P.S. 142, the local school on the Lower East Side where almost every -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.
Taking aim at MIT Plano West sending 4 students, more than any school ... when they tackle the prestigious university this fall. No other school in ... electrical engineering and computer science. Their high school graduation -
Blog / Challenges
Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…
/attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
was asked several times at my grad school interviews how the environment ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated