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...recipient of a bachelor's, a master's and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, Chomsky has taught at MIT since 1955. He is receiving today a Doctorate of Laws...
Chomsky is a linguistics professor at MIT. He is considered by many the most influential scholar in the field, and his theory of language, published in 1957, launched what psychologists and linguists call the "Chomsky revolution...
Instead, she picked the school down the road, Harvard. "And I think, in the end, it was that I could cross-register at MIT and still take architecture classes there," Maya says. "Otherwise, I definitely would not have come--if there were no way to cross-register...
Maya ended up receiving acceptance letters from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, everywhere. But when Charles Vest, the president of MIT, called her to see if she had any questions, the answers worried her. "What attracted me to MIT was their school of architecture, but I thought that outside of my architecture classes, I would be very unhappy academically," she says. "I was looking at what my freshman year schedule would be...it would be, like, chemistry, chemistry, biology, biology, physics, physics, calculus...writing class...
Maya was busy. Sometimes she wondered if she was attending Harvard at all. Her academic regimen included regular trips via subway to Kendall Square for cross-registered courses. At MIT, she endured several 40-hour weeks at the drafting table. "I can't even recall how many times I've seen dawn from MIT--more times than I care to count," Maya chuckles...