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• 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 / 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 / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  bunch of science-y books and shirts that say “Future Scientist” and “(e ... better timing than to flaunt your computer science degree? MIT Tim the ... of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• 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

  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 / 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 / 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

  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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  apply for a master's at a university near Paris, but I needed a letter of ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• 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
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  skills. The Course 1-12 Climate System Science and Engineering degree program, jointly offered by the Departments of Civil and Environmental ... coming decades. You will learn: * The foundational science of climate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  know you don't get two diplomas, although you do get some sort of ... it's a bit of a walk from the lab and because it's kind of expensive ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M.Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year ... program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  .  Over the weekend, I graduated with honors with a master of science degree ... retake the GIR! D’s get degrees! Feeling refreshed at the start of the ... I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  calculus, more than half do not offer any form of computer science, and ... science degree from the Florida Institute of Technology, taught high school ... institution of science and technology on the planet.  I moved into New House

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering ... process of building out your list of schools to which you will likely apply

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025