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• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  nationally and internationally the past two skating seasons. Still Juniors ... year I secured a spot at the Senior Nationals with a win at the Eastern ... the country, producing dozens of National, World and Olympic Champions

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  backing up, about someone not flushing the toilet, about the nation's state ... harder) 8.13 - lab 8.286 - early universe (w/ alan guth) - this can serve ... / different goals. The degree that you receive is the same either way. If you

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

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  below are national/international, selective, multi-week, residential ... Program (HSSSRP)Michigan State University High School Honors Science ... Young Scientists (PROMYS)The Ross Program Stanford University Mathematics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  to say no one would hire me, because by August I had two job offers ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation ... yelled to her friends, “HEY! This guy has a master’s degree and he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... D program. Master's degrees don't mean much in biology or other sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... science core. The freshman learning communities often offer a coherent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... Yale and Cornell Universities are rightfully cause for shock and sadness ... issues in perspective. While universities are seeing larger numbers of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  service opportunities" and offers IAP and summer fellowships a) Focus ... underserved communities locally, nationally, or internationally [and ... laboratories, and universities around the world; - support of MIT faculty for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  my count) presidents of other colleges and universities - including ... 's Episcopal chaplain) then offered the invocation - a nice passage on the ... us. Next, the Chorallaries did a beautiful job of singing the national

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... school offers. (let's face it - as "great" as Harvard is, you can ... prompt for the rest of their life compared to most leading universities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer

  

  UniversityRed Line: Harvard10am and 2pm, Monday-Friday Tufts UniversityRed Line: Davis9am, 10:30am, 1:30pm, Monday-Friday Boston UniversityGreen Line ... UniversityGreen Line, E Train: Northeastern9am, 10am, 2pm, 3pm, Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  , most notably course 6 (EECS) -- biology doesn't offer one. (For that matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters degree to anyone -- masters degrees aren't really all that useful or common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  whatsoever. According to the National Weather Service, we had nearly record temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great ... degree of proficiency once they're here. Personally, I'm not really all ... interview offers -- one from UCLA's ACCESS program (linked above) and one from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... University Press), even those trying "faithfully" to represent Shakespeare ... technology. You can find all music courses offered here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  universities including MIT filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing the ... students, faculty, scholars, and universities. Since January, when the order ... -international sentiment and are reconsidering their decision to apply to universities in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... ; Comp Sci) offers this and I'm pretty sure it's a lock if you have a ... because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  women. Half of the nation’s medical students are women, and for decades ... the National Academy of Sciences reported in September. And at each step ... university campuses, female scientists are asking why, and wondering what they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day." and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014