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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... general idea of religion which was that of a universe ordered by a supreme ... seventeenth century, Science was considered to be in support of Christianity, so

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  extremely hard towards my degree just like all of you here. And I still ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  section of the current (soon to be "old") apply section on MITadmissions ... Upstatement, the agency that helped design the new www.mit.edu and science ... chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free ... offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  below) you can apply for medical school. For example, an acquaintance of ... My dear friend Farhan '05 (Course 9: Brain & Cognitive Sciences ... News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should ... to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... students we will be able to admit to the Class of 2018. If you have any

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of education programs (thank you, Intel!). Some nice footage from its science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  class.) SP.323 Foundations of Modern Science (a Concourse thing) Spring ... In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit ... metal-ligand catalyst via spectoscopy (5.04), finding the best set of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  because people have applied this framework in a broad range of settings; it ... different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... computer science, or any other subject, truly entails. and this lack of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that ... looking at things from another perspective: the policy side of that science ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  engineering degree in media studies and computer science. I've joined things ... their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Social Sciences) community. Some of our professors are widely recognized ... also learned about the pitfalls of social science that now help me ... advisor of my choice. The five other Political Science majors are writing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa ... party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  the University of Vermont). Quick disclaimer, this is not cause I was ... same venue, but we held ours at the Museum of Science instead. Outside of ... of assessments in education, photography, and computer science

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  and others easier. I wanted to apply to a range of places so that I could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... schools, I could apply to a range of places (in terms of selectivity). By

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005