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  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  broad discussion of the whole universe.  Professor Flowers’ model of ... provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... exploration of how humans think, and how we can apply truth and knowledge to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying ... this entry defining who should apply and why. Some of you may come away ... Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  experience called A Piece of the Universe! Another thing I did, partly in ... were really no repercussions for failure. I ended up applying many of the ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  numerically by course (in the School of Science, it went 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 18 ... a late major in the School of Science. On the bright side, I didn ... Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  and not applying - but two of my closest friends here came from a high ... around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your ... the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences), then by major (Course 1 ... am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  have I learned a lot about science, but I've gained a great deal of self ... lot of money to apply to graduate school (GRE general test, GRE subject ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  such events as the University of Missouri incidents in November ... events highlighted across college campuses such as the University of ... (Institutional Research) offered clementines and other goodies with her decades of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do ... Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up ... The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science ... University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in ... heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  everything: "But the truth is, we can’t science the shit out of every problem ... . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... " stuff like newspaper, debate, science club, etc, and the names of the ... well as a good number of the other "top" national universities. Good luck

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  done this at some point, so if you know of a blogger who already has ... Brendan, MIT students go off to do a lot of different things when they graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  in a secondary schools' science fair and made it to the finals of that ... freshman but rather apply to the whole of MIT; freshmen are all undeclared ... about the admission of the 2010 class. Do I have to apply 5 years before I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  Building 46, home to all that is Course 9: Brain/Cognitive Sciences. Which, as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  school. I'm taking 8.01 (Physics), 5.111 (Principles of Chemical Science ... classes and exams offered, but I didn't have any idea where I was applying ... Science - neither of which are accepted for credit at MIT. And I'm fairly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... great resource for those students applying to MIT from outside of the US ... .e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... do a lot of defense-related work, but they have cognitive science

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013