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What other student resources are available?
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FAQ / Prepare for MIT
Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?
Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online "SAT quest," complete with custom practice problems, instructional videos, and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website -
Blog / Admissions
Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.
colleges/universities. Because they carry a different mandate, publics ... . Private colleges/universities on the other hand are freer to admit ... universities to weigh individual characteristics more than SATs scores. Yes, it -
FAQ / Academics and research
What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?
Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students -
Blog / Admissions
Derailment My Gap Year
University, and enjoyed a relaxing senior spring. So did I, but it was ... - they were being paid $8/hour just like me, even with their degrees. I ... Gettysburg with a degree in marine biology. I asked him what his dreams, his -
Blog / About Decisions
Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…
commencement this year, with three bachelors degrees and a masters degree between ... University Ave. Then go dancing at Fannie & Alexander's (ask people where F -
FAQ / Afford
Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?
MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based -
Blog / Admissions
What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.
a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... offering help to one another is in tune with the same spirit. I'm not referring to just my fraternity brothers offering to prep me in 8.01, but also -
Blog / Academics & Research
I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…
upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... the spring. Two of the three freshman chem classes are only offered -
Blog / Athletics
Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.
degrees outside, and since I had sent an e-mail for my floor asking for ... offer you hugs, kisses, or other things in that vein. One even offered ... up on the offer, but figured that she probably wanted to kiss gay girls -
Blog / Academics & Research
motivation musings as i look back on the year
academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they ... extremely hard towards my degree just like all of you here. And I still ... ? There's no symbolic universally agreed-upon finish line like the -
Blog / Advice
On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…
our training came out to greet us, offered me water. “No thank you,” I ... degrees so that I wouldn’t have to make eye contact when I couldn’t. I often ... takes three offers before someone takes the tea.” She realized what I -
Blog / MIT Life
Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…
chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our ... /25: University of Washington Today I learned that University of Washington is ... of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities -
Blog / Athletics
Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~
is offered every quarter. At MIT, we got semesters, but there are 5 PE ... not entirely so. I am [annotation note="TO AN EXTREMELY MODERATE DEGREE ... taking that lifted knee, turning it 90 degrees-ish, and kicking across -
Blog / Athletics
walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek
Institute last spring, with an [annotation note="trivia: MIT only offers Bachelor of Science degrees, which means that all degrees are SBs -
Blog / Academics & Research
New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule
degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... ’s offered in both semesters (albeit with two different professors) so I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…
third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... /PhD degrees. I really love research but I also have great passion in medicine ... /PhD degree, I do not know whether I’ll do more research or more clinical -
Blog / Academics & Research
You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in
rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think ... for information about what you can do with an economics degree (use the -
Blog / Challenges
My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye
return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... University of Cambridge. And yes, none of these were really rejections to be ... sophomore year, and I had a job offer in hand by mid-November. I didn't really -
Blog / Admissions
Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.
, University of Northern Iowa (http ... and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement ... Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of