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• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs-Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself ... class. (I've got my fingers crossed on this French Revolution one). What

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  University, an 8-day research and cultural exchange session. I’m not doing ... difficult to travel cross-country without flying or driving. We’re heavily ... University, where I’ll really be on my own, but also, probably treated more as

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , based in colleges and universities. If you join the program, you ... another university but come to MIT for ROTC) and varsity athletes only have ... AFROTC at MIT or one of our detachment’s cross-town schools (Harvard, Tufts

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  mistake - I said that I am only taking four classes. Cross out the word only

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  operations: American Red Cross International Relief Fund World Vision **or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  disappoints. Someone asked yesterday if anyone at MIT could cross-register at ... opportunities for cross-registration at Wellesley (yes, even boys), the ... availability of cross-registration here is definitely near the top of the List of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

   high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  degrees so that I wouldn’t have to make eye contact when I couldn’t. I often ... for his face in every crowd. Stop fearing what I’ll find when I cross ... of American Universities which sought to prevent and respond to sexual

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  , committing to failure and settling?']I could always finish my degree and then ... embarrassment. I’ve traveled the world, attended a dream university, got along

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  physics-philosophy degree. Allow me to demonstrate with this participatory ... corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  .   Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... , Pennsylvania, a few minutes from the Carnegie Mellon University campus, which I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  interested in pursuing physics beyond my undergraduate degree. There's a good ... way the laws of the universe flow out of math equations, I love solving

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  undergrad degree from MIT. Being rejected made me feel like those dreams would ... interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... they universities, companies, nonprofits, startups, are doing these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  universally intimidating questions that you don't really need to know the ... degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... students who had aspired to study at the best universities since before they

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015