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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  science/technology, but also a very strong interest in some aspect of the ... classes in the science that I find really interesting, from the plethora of awesome science classes that MIT offers. How do people not majoring in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  , theoretical computer science, or biomedical applications of EECS), and the ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of Open ... and department head of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ... neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  continues in parallel is the financial aid process. For those of you applying ... "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of ... of writing excessive amounts of fanfiction, so I was pretty excited to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... funny way of working themselves out. I’m definitely applying to MISTI ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in physics. During his time at the University of Chicago, Mohamed realized he ... mater, the University of Chicago. “I know that department, I know the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or ... advancement of science when he died studying yellow fever. 89. According to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... science and technology that shines in your everyday life.  Or you could be ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  applied to us, something difficult for all involved. Of those 18 ... unable to offer admission, please remember that, as one of our bloggers ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh, one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... level of detail that exceeds what satellites can provide. Working with

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  at the University of Washington. We (well, some of us) played Settlers ... in the Cognitive Science department of Sandia National Laboraties. I ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics ... Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... 't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but occasionally some students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  . These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010