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What other student resources are available?
MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
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FAQ / Prepare for MIT
Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?
Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online "SAT quest," complete with custom practice problems, instructional videos, and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website -
Blog / About Decisions
On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…
in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... school offers. (let's face it - as "great" as Harvard is, you can ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes -
FAQ / Academics and research
What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?
Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take
="for those of you with Celsius mind- that’s about -1 degrees, so freezing"]30 degree[/annotation] weather. 15. Kill the batteries of your equipment ... footage and audio files to your working area. I use a solid state drive and -
FAQ / Afford
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
What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.
a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... offering help to one another is in tune with the same spirit. I'm not referring to just my fraternity brothers offering to prep me in 8.01, but also -
Blog / Athletics
Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.
degrees outside, and since I had sent an e-mail for my floor asking for ... offer you hugs, kisses, or other things in that vein. One even offered ... up on the offer, but figured that she probably wanted to kiss gay girls -
Blog / Admissions
January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.
of the students pretty much go to state schools if they go to college ... Bachelors degree from your university, we will not be able to consider you (we do not admit students for a second Bachelors degree). Otherwise, it -
Blog / Academics & Research
motivation musings as i look back on the year
commonly-stated “internally/externally-motivated” by also factoring in what ... academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they ... extremely hard towards my degree just like all of you here. And I still -
Blog / Athletics
Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~
is offered every quarter. At MIT, we got semesters, but there are 5 PE ... not entirely so. I am [annotation note="TO AN EXTREMELY MODERATE DEGREE ... taking that lifted knee, turning it 90 degrees-ish, and kicking across -
Blog / Advice
On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…
our training came out to greet us, offered me water. “No thank you,” I ... degrees so that I wouldn’t have to make eye contact when I couldn’t. I often ... takes three offers before someone takes the tea.” She realized what I -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I’m waiting for my green card?
're considered an international applicant if you're not a United States citizen or United States permanent resident (green card holder). Applicants awaiting -
Blog / Academics & Research
New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule
degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... ’s offered in both semesters (albeit with two different professors) so I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…
third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... /PhD degrees. I really love research but I also have great passion in medicine ... /PhD degree, I do not know whether I’ll do more research or more clinical -
Blog / Events
Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line
on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... . The email stated (unsurprisingly) that “due to the current circumstances ... social distancing. The email reflected this optimistic view, stating that -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper
. President Charles Vest eagerly endorsed the Report. He stated in his preface ... Science and Engineering for universities across the United States. This ... -needed evidence of sexual inequality in science in the United States. A Caltech -
Blog / Personal Travel
Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.
's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... doubt getting some sort of degree in Course 7 with her award ... managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something -
Blog / How to Human
My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok
perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn ... my mental state, that I was getting away with my little secret. ... to varying degrees, but I always felt insulated by the fact that my -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I ... transitioned to college. The educational system in the United States is clearly ... my family and the first to pursue a graduate degree; it’s the system