Thanks for attending our GBM/Math Mixer!

Thanks to everyone who attended our event last week!

We had 45 people who attended: 11 TAs, 26 students, and 8 exec members. Of the students, 9 were freshmen and 9 were sophomores.

Underclassmen- we hope this event was helpful! Best of luck this semester and beyond, and we hope to see you at our next event!

If you attended, please fill out our survey- we'd love feedback:

[EVENT] General Body Meeting & Math Mixer

USWIM will be having a joint event, the details are below:
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: 4-149
6:30-7:00 Learn about how to get involved with our outreach and public relations committees
7:00-8:30 Meet current and former math TAs and learn about MIT's first and second year math courses
Dinner will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Welcome to USWIM's Blog!

Let's start off by saying a bit about USWIM. USWIM is the Undergraduate Society of Women in Mathematics, and we are a student group at MIT building an academic and social community for undergraduate women in the math department (of course, we welcome men and non-math majors just the same).

In the past, we have held a wide variety of events. In the fall, we held a math mixer to welcome the freshmen, welcome back the sophomores, and tell all of them about the introductory math courses that MIT has to offer. They hear from the TAs* that have taught and are teaching these classes, as well as the upperclassmen who took them. Our Math in Industries event hosted company representatives to come speak about the applications of math in industry and career opportunities. Similarly, we invite seniors and graduate students to talk on our panel for students looking to pursue graduate school or academia.

If you'd like to know more about USWIM, please visit our booth at the Activities Midway! It will take place on Friday, September 2nd, from 4pm to 6:30 pm. Also, feel free to email us at swim-exec@mit.edu; we'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thanks for reading our blog, and we hope to see you at orientation!

Christie Chiu '13

USWIM Webmaster

Course 8 & 18 (that's physics and math)

* TAs are teaching assistants. They are graduate students (usually) who teach recitations and help grade, whereas the professor teaches lecture and assigns final grades.