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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  staffers why, having gotten a degree from such a prestigious university, they ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... wear, or what will eventually be on your diploma. You grow based on the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  't award second bachelor's degrees. As long as you don't already have an undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  . Jude -- patron saint of lost causes -- next to a picture of Thoth, the ... without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... ) * Carey (Joni Mitchell) * You'll Never Make a Saint of Me (Rolling Stones

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has an established agreement, and both universities exchange students with
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... how to lift up our siblings of color. please, please read vincent and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  universities worldwide in these areas. Q: What advice do you have for applicants

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on campus. Military training has existed at MIT ever since the Institute ... 'll have earned not only your degree, but a commission as an officer and
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  moment, I wear mine as an alumna. Then we started receiving our diplomas ... in elaborate robes, waved at Prof. Bertschinger, accepted my diploma ... advisor. In Prof. Guth's Early Universe class (8.286, which I took

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  you have enrolling in another university in a degree-seeking program ... enroll as a degree-seeking student at another university, you can only ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 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 / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated Immunology and enjoying my time at a university that is very, very different ... with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• 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 / 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

  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

  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 / 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 / Life after MIT

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

  

  her bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1973 and a master's in ... . To Perlman, mathematics offered the best way to cut through the mumbo ... happened to be in the audience and offered her a job. She joined Digital in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006