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  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in the United States, this 16-year-old whiz kid from Haiti accomplished ... half the students earn diplomas within four years. While growing up in St ... Technology last year as a joke, saying he didn't expect to be offered admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• 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 ... well known, and it offers opportunities for undergraduate research ... the States for university that you'll cast a wide net -- not just MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  : "Please offer your advice on the following: I am contemplating applying ... question on the self-reported coursework section. It states it should be ... awesome international applicant pool, not offer Early Action to its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... ; Comp Sci) offers this and I'm pretty sure it's a lock if you have a ... because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  for grabs to a degree few still among the living have ever seen. And ... receiving their diplomas from President Reif and Provost Schmidt  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  undergrad and graduate students alike receive their diplomas in Killian Court ... identify their school and degree (red means PhD, or doctorate of philosophy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  -design-me-a-quick-robot-over-Skype-please)), and negotiating offers and deadlines. ^That paragraph was ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... week off. We traversed 10 states, spending ~50 hours in a Kia Soul

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  state. Most prefrosh didn't have smartphones (which were quite limited at ... a master's degree. Let me tell you -- time flies. For me, the MIT ... . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi ... T and talking trash about northern California weather. (65 degrees ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... part of any sort of "tradition" within it, except maybe the politically-liberal-in-a-red-state

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  collection of short classroom labs offered in MIT introductory mechanical ... discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I ... for local students, as well as its MIT course offerings. STS.050 The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  return offer after you graduate, and hopefully sponsor your H1B visa. All ... stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don ... state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  gender imbalance in STEM fields, Women’s and Gender Studies offered up a ... people, just with snazzy degrees and bulky metal rings. Orientation is more ... state to start our respective journeys. At least that's what I, a fellow

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

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... the spring. Two of the three freshman chem classes are only offered

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many ... (join our army), the course administrators offered the option to complete

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... isn’t always 100% humid, 100 degrees, and left 100 mosquito bites around ... seat as I ventured into states that were, just this morning, places on a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A ... colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... this year? If you do, I'd love to drop a penny off the Empire State

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  ). I have also had candidates ask me "what majors are offered at MIT ... (such as IGNOU-www.ignou.ac.in) in a 3 year bachelors degree granting ... MIT?" If you are enrolled in a degree-seeking course at a university

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006