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  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this feature — which we developed ... translate to academic success at MIT if you cannot account for testing. Of ... are prepared to do all of that work, across all of those fields, at

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... UROPs at Whitehead (none at Broad that I know of, because the new building

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  was significantly improved by the fact that a couple of the tables at ... takes time for you to settle down at a table and get all of your materials ... banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  about computers? "At the end of the meeting, the organizers still called ... excited at the opportunity to solve all sorts of puzzles," she said. She ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled ... Bachelor of Science degrees, which means that all degrees are SBs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER ... out the choice of major form and turned it in at the Student Services ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good ... point. There’s light and beauty at the end of the hallway ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  thing, than okay at 10. Of course, it's even cooler to be really good at ... really good at physics. (And cheerleading.) That digression aside, of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... ), 8 HASS subjects (including at least one in each category of Humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  : Receive a degree in Physics, because I love Physics. This is a large part of ... House, analyzing data, at all hours of the day and night. My partner is ... our data to calculate the mean life of muons at rest; basically, after

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  of grapes -- turns out they weren't even hers -- or realizing that at any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... at the top of our lungs and paint our nails. Our weeks start with a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  , flailing at a never-ending torrent of projects like Lucy and Ethel at the ... amounts of sleep, trying to order a burrito at Anna's during the lunch rush ... . That philosophy has been a two-edged sword, but at the end of the day I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  coaster at East Campus, won a game of Scrabble, not done laundry, jumped on ... stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room ... at MIT, and it's clear that the insanely complex flavors of this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  we arrived at the snowy front gate of Camp Cody. I wasn’t expecting ... transported back to summer camp at Camp Lakewood in 5th grade. But instead of ... at least 80% of the people in my cohort. Also, skiing and snow tubing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree ... Hi! At CPW, some students in Macgregor were telling me that a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006