Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  you to learn science, to achieve the kind of competence you’d always ... what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll ... applied for aid, the Financial Aid Office will follow up shortly thereafter

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  Political Science PhD student, had to say:   University funding (sources ... not, given the fact that it is one of the greatest science and ... outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about ... Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Barclays Global Investors completed PhD at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ... D from Stanford, now an assistant professor of Social and Decision Sciences ... program, beginning postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the ... should abandon science... if your soul isn't flooded with the emotion of ... undergrad and grad school, since a lot of success in science depends on a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On ... computer science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the ... : Brain science may not leap to mind when people think of MIT, but the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  in the economy, applying tools of basic microeconomics to answer ... control of vehicles. E. Feron 18.310 Principles of Applied Mathematics ... emerging issues in the relationship between institutions of law and science

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. CI-Hs are a subset of ... .3700.[/annotation] Although [annotation note="Mathematics for Computer Science"]6 ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, followed by an offsite meeting at the University of DC, meeting with leaders of the ... , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of ... I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a ... aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  partial differential equations of applied mathematics: diffusion, Laplace ... -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... inflation but also applied it to the stack of papers on his desk.] SP.417J

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... number of people who wanted to go into agricultural sciences or veterinary ... University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022