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Blog / Academics & Research
And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate
majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cue the montage music
offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have ... guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science -
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Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?
MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based -
Blog / Admissions
An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki
lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... to say no one would hire me, because by August I had two job offers ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders
. That's a lot of degrees between the two of them, and these guys know what ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention -
Blog / Academics & Research
A lot about course 9
Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned -
Blog / Academics & Research
Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".
Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013... Jonte '13 ... 2009 graduate of Franklin County High School, is one of 12 students ... of Technology (MIT) this fall, where he will major in civil or -
Blog / Admissions
International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…
interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting -
Blog / Academics & Research
As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine
-A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of ... from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?
, and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased -
Blog / Academics & Research
Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab
Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I -
Blog / MIT Life
An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.
playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv ... reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal -
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Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar
economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality -
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Do You Have A Core Curriculum?
take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... classrooms around the building. It was pretty busy for the duration of the two -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?
, "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of -
Blog / Events
In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.
-and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at -
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Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…
that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding heritage at MIT
this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ) but also what you didn't. I knew, of course, that MIT students got to ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to