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• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... geometry." This is a great opportunity, I hope many of you will apply! For ... From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer science classes in general; as a math major, I feel like a lot of concepts ... Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more ... semester's worth of essays - and music!!) back though!! :( Haha - so this is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  'd offer some hints if I got stuck. I babbled on for a couple of seconds ... (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• 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 / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  of high school I came out as a wannabe engineer and applied to MIT ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• 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
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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