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  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  a Course 20 degree, only one of them is, strictly speaking, Course 20 ... before applying (for example, competing in science fairs, attending ... provides all students with a common core of foundational scientific knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... onwards, they are Engineering, Management, Science, Architecture+Planning, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. (Here are some statistics on

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  graduate of my favorite school in the universe, and have a hockey jersey (and ... ; Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  , Brown University, Colby College, and Columbia University in the City of ... universities beforehand and come into the event with an idea of the institutions ... marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... for 4 full classes + 6 extra units people often apply to one of these ... buildings don't seem as elegant as some of the other universities I visited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  significant single decision as choosing a university. But I’m facing a lot of ... I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  's degrees in mathematics and computer science, and I will have finished my first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ’t think this degree of flexibility is necessarily bad, even if it can lead ... like a pretty regular set of classes to take for a chemistry degree ... game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  body [during the years of the study].") 2. Moreover, science, engineering ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... Museum of Science, Harvard Square, Fresh Pond, the Navy Yard, Newbury ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here’s some of what I got up to!   Name [latex]2^n[/latex] Women: Dorm

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  architecture department’s website states: [T]he Bachelor of Science in Art and ... class, symbolized by the “s”! Course 4 offers many of these special ... : there are probably hundreds of computer science majors in my year alone

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...because i was thinking of applying...if someone can help me...please e-amil me ... you if you don't have x kind of activity (sport, research, science team ... like that shade of Blue/Green, btw. Evan replied: Adam - different dorms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering ... applying to college these days. Baby boomers have produced a booming crop of ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  Computer Science, and had even vacationed to Cameroon in the winter of 2012 ... science minor and became obsessed with the exciting proposition of ... One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  at the home of John Durant, Adam's STS.014 (Science Communication ... Well, today was my last day of class as an undergrad. Technically the last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  speaks to my curiosity about the fundamental working of the universe, and I ... science, to be specific. I’ve done a lot of research in atmospheric science ... science but now I can maybe finally rediscover that bit of myself. Crossing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department ... in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018