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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  year.) Once the national teams are selected, they gather at a site for ... , with a total of 23 students representing the nation (the team sizes ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  what? Going to two meetings of the National Honors Society or the Physics ... national engineering honors society, Tau Beta Pi, and the mechanical ... it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  temperatures. (I remember going into one that was 50 degrees Celsius or 122 degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't even high in sauna standards; but I was ... -honored cultural tradition that not only sustains an impact on an entire nation, but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my ... won a prize from the National Academy of Sciences. I could go on. But ... generosity. One last thing -- Degree requirements for the SB in biology, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last ... graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Clara is a Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  moment, this afternoon’s graduation celebration will offer us all the ... for our nation. The death of George Floyd and the events unfolding in ... very present struggles for our nation and for the world. With great love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  President Obama has proclaimed today National Day of Making, an ... and organizations have come together to support the National Day of ... the admissions process (like our Maker Portfolio which we offer through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular ... lateral mobility once they've matriculated. Many undergraduate degrees then

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... that Twitter offers as a medium for storytelling that make it a very ... . Her parents want her to go abroad to the University of Paris. She’s not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid ... hotel. A skating mom offers to drive me back to my hotel, and then I ... Senior level, and hoping to qualify for Nationals as well. As it turns out

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  in robotics seemed to demand master’s or PhD degrees. I finally got a ... , wondering if robotics was what I really wanted to do. I got one job offer I ... degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... universe. I've always liked to take the telescope out at night and look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... of University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  neglect to account for the other nations which will undoubtedly take the ... graduate from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and, frankly, I ... steering our nation and world to a prosperous, secure and sustainable future

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five ... different classes offered and I really want to dabble in video game design and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... , that includes inexperienced freshmen with little more to offer than

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  with? Good. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a tray ... some things. Josh is majoring in computer science at the University of ... thinner than I chop the beets. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem ... more than a bachelor's degree to get a chemistry- or biology ... with a master's degree or PhD, from what I understand there are jobs in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... many different universities to see what kinds of programs and ... university's general approach to accommodating students who were undecided or

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  2007 study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico determined ... According to the 2007 study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico ... well. Three summers ago, biologists from the University of the Andes in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013