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• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  --even data collected from the test itself shows this.   BEWARE OF FAKE ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake ... 're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  ! Caltech's 'prank' this year was pretty sweet - they make a fake issue of the ... MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a ... joint degree between science and humanities, 21E with engineering and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  , is about to graduate with a course 6 degree, numerous musical accolades ... ranges from jazz standards: To funky arrangements of other classic songs (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... any customers. One day, independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you ... degree that indicates both fields of concentration. If none of these ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or ... 'll have earned not only your degree, but a commission as an officer and ... typically includes one or three hours of classroom training depending on year
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus, which includes a dedicated Office of Student Veterans Success (SVS), committed to supporting the academic, financial, and personal goals of
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody else: go to MIT for reward of hot shower. 10:50 AM: Walk back to Next

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... practice writing essays. My internship in the latter half of the summer also

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I ... -warping influence of continued sleep deprivation, my initial 5 days at MIT were about ... , hazy sort of fondness that I usually reserve for Dali paintings and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I haven't talked about any MIT alumni K-12 teachers. A number of my friends and acquaintances are teachers, and they are fantastic. One of these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an ...  hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from one of the best ... of MOOCs, UE distance learners can receive a Masters degree. There are ... Technology-enhanced education is changing the lives of millions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year. ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super ... take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006