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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  clarify what I said about masters' degrees in the sciences not being ... (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  need one in math, one in science, and a third in any area of your ... applying to MIT as a Freshman for the 2nd time in a row. I sent 3 letters of ... mit domain (mit.edu), but please don't email me with any variations of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• 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.

  

  related master's degree (such as the MST, the Master of Science in ... MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... to complete the requirements for both degrees at the end of five years

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

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  just three of many terrific math & science summer programs that high ... State University High School Honors Science ... juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of ... Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  different departments) contains pages and pages of “degree charts”—lists of subject requirements for any possible MIT diploma. Pouring over the lists of ... . An inhabitant of East Campus(5W) and an active member of the class of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Computer Science.' Also one of my brother's received a bachelors degree and ... : "Please offer your advice on the following: I am contemplating applying ... universities, MIT has a quota for the number of international students it can

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

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  local school, I applied at University of Texas, but my first choice was ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a ... of applying my skills to design vehicles or systems used in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  requirements of two majors to get a double degree, rather than a simple double ... spurred on by this stupid idea of graduating each with two diplomas, we went ... ...you’re taking all of these kids from around the country and the world

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  for you to contact each of the universities you plan on applying to and ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... you have enrolling in another university in a degree-seeking program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  decide to not major in science? As for applying to law school - they should ... good number of IR courses in the Political Science department, among ... one of my concerns, too. I knew I liked math & science, and that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  computer science while also focusing on a paired discipline that’s of ... can be paired with computer science in a coherent undergraduate degree ... computer science with other fields where they might eventually apply their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... Requirements, or GIRs. The GIRs consist of 17 classes, 9 in math, science, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... means of the Internet), I accepted my offer of admission. You already know ... understanding from the fabric of the universe is like pretending to be a salmon

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... apply for degree programs at Oxford (I’m hoping to studying Integrated ... considering applying, I checked out the bios of the past scholars and found them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture ... number of reasons (including MIT’s amazing financial aid offer), I arrived

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a ... science and discovery, and mature. In return, many of his students have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  Technology. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers ... imaginative problem solving. The MIT School of Architecture and Planning offers ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  think I liked science that much; it was just the area of the pool that ... graduate MIT soon with a science degree and no debt, so I guess everything ... applied."]upended by a pandemic.[/annotation] This lack of confidence was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020