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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  Sciences program, from which both my UROP professor and my postdoc graduated ... of questions MIT alums ask each other when they meet: what course were you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Miller, was out of town today, so the Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... said "I know about that having a master's degree in the pure sciences ... introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  process of applying to your institution. I just you to tell me about your ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  year, I ended up applying for the IAP Madrid program offered by the ... beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically ... . The conference is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from Thursday to Sunday. (UPMUNC = University of Pennsylvania Model

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican ... trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... your QuestBridge application to apply through Early Action. You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Regular Action. You may
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... Science and Engineering, this course promises to provide a more applied ... Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens ... sense of the world." growing up in a very math/science-focused community ... superior and more rigorous to the so-called "soft sciences." MIT's school of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature ... utilized in a range of fields, such as DNA research and computer science ... many of you will consider applying!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... equally good computer science program? I've made a lot of connections and ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  most Summit activities will be at Northeastern University, the Museum of ... the Museum of Science for free (yay MIT ID card!) and because I figured it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... students qualified to teach Italian high schoolers some science, in English ... polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied ... , especially since so many MIT applicants also apply to the slew of top schools

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... my horizons and get out of my comfort zone. Over the past three years at MIT, I chased all sorts of side adventures, determined to make the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025