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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of ... certain of my path and purpose. 2. Apply early. There are only benefits to ... overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  . So much of computer science is about systems, systems design thinking ... took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• 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 / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... , basically I applied to a bunch of grants around MIT so that I could work on ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021