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• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  the States for university that you'll cast a wide net -- not just MIT ... university. This list can be of great use to all international students who ... interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... week off. We traversed 10 states, spending ~50 hours in a Kia Soul ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  State's honors college (+ full tuition/room/board scholarship). I was ... OSU or other state schools and are now planning to work in Columbus ... state school environment. Sure, you can find a group of equally smart

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... restaurant app was “just one of the things on our super long list of things

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Weekend CPW and marathon volunteering

  

  ouch, my last CPW!  

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  stocks up and hibernates when the weather goes a degree below 60F, so I don ... state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that ... long day❤️ (I am not, in fact, being paid to advertise, but maybe I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  announced year-long disruptions to SAT administration and recommended that ... to COVID-19. As stated in our Making Caring Common pledge — and ... under such strain that they cannot perform to a degree commensurate with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  concept of public housing in the United States. (I have finally found the ... 's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... long lines and waits are good! The hardest part is waking up before 5

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  the United States in the international olympiads. There are 5 major ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math ... long academic journey, Lander ended up in biology/genetics, was the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  education. The state of gifted education is the other half of the article, the ... National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, at the University of ... National Association for Gifted Children, said that state and local efforts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Beach (another migration—my family lives in Pennsylvania). “Happy Monday ... episode is 15 minutes long and focuses on some aspect of making up stories ... -generation Kindle from a very long time ago and therefore awesome. Cory took Small

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Beach Boys 1965: The Rooftop Singers 1964: Maynard Ferguson 1962: Dakota ... Concert, the Kent State massacre occurred. On the same day, according to The ... , voted overwhelmingly to strike 'in solidarity with the national university

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully ... under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great ... uninsured, covered by federal/state/county aided health insurance (Medicare

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  going to the beach?! What's that you are wearing?! Tell me, do you think ... also trained in beach lifeguarding (which is quite different from that of ... wanted to go to another program in the States, but I was rejected by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock ... diplomas, as the ceremony was coming to an end. Frosh, welcome to MIT. You

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy ... 30,000. The tennis ball representing how we naturally adopt a state of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... everything from the quality of the food to the state of education in China ... bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. Certainly, he told us, he never

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  States, and is considered among the best. The undergraduate program is a 4 ... ) degree, including some who enter a 6 year accelerated combined BSAD ... , students may apply to do a study abroad exchange with the Delft University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes ... . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too ... , foregrounded by podium and degrees,  talk before the ceremony begins. Faculty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019