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  Neuroscience classes

  

  people think of when they think of "brain & cognitive sciences" (the ... , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  you many of resources like offering you hosting space where you can ... ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1 ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... everything, so I simply didn’t apply. This semester, though, I finally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  the offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it ... I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  Two weeks of class have already flown by. Problem sets are perpetual ... begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  neat opportunity to learn more about two of my passions: food and science ... outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... outside of the Museum of Science on a Boston Duck Tour before the tour guide ... . I don’t really like kids, but I’m also a fan of science museums myself

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  ’t heard of them? Neither did I until I applied to MISTI-Japan and got an ... world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... Engineering and Computer Science). Someone took this information, typed it onto ... abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few ... applied for work in the field of education. After considering a number of ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Thank you to everyone who applied. Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly

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

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... differences among the different tracks—applied math has a whole different set of ... 't taken many of the more applied or CS-related classes. So let me now talk

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... little New England town that you probably haven’t heard of. Enter freshman ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  After questions about homeschooling, one of the most frequent "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply ... of early- and mid-teenagers, those who, even though young, would truly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Softtek   Graciás a la University of Monterrey for hosting us on your ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT ... did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  surprising pulpit of a university famous for its overachievers, she has become ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  just so great. recently, I got to watch an old School of Science video ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024