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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

  

  population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... surprised to see Elizabeth named GEL ‘11 class leader for next semester! In ... student at MIT participating in an engineering leadership program. I got my

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

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... language, Scratch was an invaluable stepping stone in my journey to pursuing ... I had previously learned in high school for Science Olympiad, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  also knew the every other floor rule for finding a restroom in an obscure ... for a few hours or days. I also became an Educational Counselor and ... come back to campus but this time as an employee working in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  gender discrimination among its women faculty in the 1990s. Below is an ... Hopkins requested an additional 200 square feet of office space for her new ... advancement in their interviews for the Report. The actual numbers on the status

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  night, essentially an in-built and predictable accountability mechanism ... consistently writing in the same place in the notebook mostly accounted for ... "] some scaffolding for my essay i wrote in the city in film. this sort of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , what are you doing for Pi Day this year? PROFESSOR: Hah! Nobody in the ... campus for MIT on the moon. Even though the “festival” resembled an ... Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  an internship working in community health, something that the MISTI ... providing free primary health care for children and prenatal women living in ... of addressing them in regards to primary health care for children, and

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that ... boat in Mexico, lying in the sun with a junior who feels more like an ... and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... studying for finals, I cooked dinner instead today. =p (it didn't really ... cook about 3 times in one semester) Mushroom Risotto! (serves two) 1

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been quite busy here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes ... quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4 ... -related meetings. Today was pretty much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings ... time for simple demonstrations of course content in real life. More ... Martin). For students, MITx provides an interactive textbook, invaluable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  privately. But not for long. An hour and a half later, my professor responded ... . He responded with an e-mail that I won't reproduce in its entirety; one ... . He went a step further, to suggest that I grade for 8.04 (Quantum I) in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  computational models for fluid flow in partially-blocked blood vessels. Fun fact ... made out to be. MIT will sponsor you for an exchange program AFTER you ... is my second summer doing an internship in France, and so far I am

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  that'd be the last time we'd see each other in-person, for a long time. i ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this ... challenging for me right now, I think it's pretty awesome that these students and faculty could make such an awesome breakthrough. Wolfgang Ketterle

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to ... applicants are in danger of getting rejected because of an internet profile

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006