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  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer ... , head of the Grad Program in Science Writing at MIT and author of this ... the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  , it looks like the bulk of awardees are in science, enterprise tech, and ... Forbes article, MIT was listed as one of the most attended universities of ... , and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  applied for the job and after a couple of phone interviews and some ... Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... -question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  ’t take into account the full range of aid that we offer, since they are ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... interface of materials science and biological engineering, mixing the two ... , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  it's an important part of the culture. Students do not apply to Cambridge University as a whole, but instead apply to a specific college, of ... 30 of us.) However, at Cambridge, my major (here it's Materials Science

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  I'm applying via Early Action. Will this affect my chances of getting ... past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  umbrella of the Dept. of Geography at Tel Aviv University is the only Urban ... Since its start (circa 1984) MISTI has sent over 350 MIT School of ... their skills abroad. Dima Ayyash Class of 2012 MIT-Germany Program

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry ... of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  sciences, and engineering." Also, there are lots of other great, focused ... 've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about that.] I hope you'll find those really cool juniors (members of the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  of the universe dribbled into the drabness of real-world practicality ... I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... resources MIT offers didn't just come out of thin air; they're there for a ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  kinds of opportunities MIT offers – and these only to a local high school ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... same rules apply - but the deadline is August 31st instead of July 31st ... applying EA or RA, please send me a supplemental email answering any of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi-dimensional puzzle; and in our post-genomic age, it has become an INFORMATION SCIENCE

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014