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  way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... magic of Computer Science at a wider scale than I had in the past. My Los ... the Special Olympics with Googlers at the University of Southern

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  Recitation: Friday 11 am Professors: H. Ploegh and T. Orr-Weaver Biology of cells of higher organisms: structure, function, and biosynthesis of ... . Commentary: We watched this video the first day of lecture. Possibly one of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He ... Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  anything.” - Maria Kalman My heart was nearly jumping out of my chest when I ... ="Admitted students weekend primarily geared towards students of Latine/Hispanic descent ... shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... science (Physics, Chemistry, or Biology E/M). Since there are always even ... may choose the second option for non-native English speakers: Test of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  different number. 6.00 is the sum of 6.0001 (Introduction to Computer Science ... quantitative social science research. Because of this, 17.803 not only teaches ... so (the downside of new methods: much of the older social science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  . The initial discovery of the science behind the gecko’s stickiness ... University of Toronto, he came to MIT as a postdoctoral researcher to work in ... that will change the face of medicine, science, and technology. Projects

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought I’d fix that now, with a review of all the classes I took freshman

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... , Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. For a complete list of sessions, click

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  need the help of other processes to do so or can only apply it to ... look for universals. Often are gifted in the use of metaphors to bridge ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  engineering and applied international studies. You'll know at the end of the ... when I applied, I thought I wanted to be a computer science major ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  University of Sannio about the productivity gap between the North and the South ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to ... about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What entrepreneurship programs are offered?

  Here are just a few of more than 85 resources dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT: Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Design