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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... dropped the second degree. And when I apply to grad school, I’ll never know how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  . Notably, a lot of the classes in those tiers were GIRs or degree ... of the classes I’ve taken at MIT, map them, etc. Shoutout to other ... semesters, I’ve taken 43 classes, totaling 510 units, for an average of about

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... Sciences. The departmental requirements are full of classes I would like to ... leaders at the Museum of Science where we will be testing, and in the next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  piece in a larger puzzle. So as many of you begin to apply to college and ... Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I ... natural progression of life events was school followed by college followed

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  along the lines of applying or choosing a graduate school, med school, and ... course 20 degree, so I am technically a 19 but kind of a 20…….” Seems like ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  Details of D.C. and other photos from my summer in the city.

  

  More snippets of life; A sequel photoblog to Colors of Campus & Motion of Manhattan. Series inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 31, 2026
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  prize of a computer and a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida ... the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  or a vapid deferral offers no reward for many years of hard work. But ... This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... . This is understandable behavior. The past few months of your life were

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Wednesday, May ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  you a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe? JRR Tolkien studied Old ... advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way. ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  information released by the admissions office of almost any other university ... legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  scares me. I'm from Oregon, I'm applying next year, and that's not a lot of ... going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... and sciences, which is necessary to survive here (which does apply to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006