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• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... make you undervalue your (perhaps less-national-news-worthy) achievements ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  plaintiff, about whether and how colleges and universities may consider race ... , Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), universities are allowed to consider race only ... particular focus on STEM fields; (2) the importance of diversity to our nation’s

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... lag and continuous curry takeaway (the national dish of England), the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  science-fiction universe. Then I saw snow for the first time while running ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... flickered to life (NEPA standing for National Electrical Power Authority

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  American Indian Science & Engineering Society National Conference ... other universities to broaden our reach and provide opportunities to more students than we would be able to by ourselves."]Other Universities

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same ... up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . The only comments I can offer are, again, that the Mathematics degree ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and courses: organization of departments and schools, course numbers, and degree

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few programs no longer offered (like Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering ... undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... national conferences. I like to think we played at least some part in the ... the national higher ed recruitment landscape in the last decade, away

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  National Pan-Hellenic Council. The first Black intercollegiate Greek fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Online Tools Additional Opportunities that Offer Financial Aid ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... : Code.org  Link: code.org Description: A free website that offers a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph ... 's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... representatives, we asked questions and offered our own experiences to shape all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021