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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  degree temps they regularly weather. But the baby penguins were cute little ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 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 ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... college, but it's honestly hard to see that progress sometimes, as I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  the boxes for them. MIT dorms also offer a storage plan that covers up ... college. ;) My amazing friends Yida and Sarah agreed to help me move my ... college students flooding into Boston right now), so I reserved a 10-foot

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... . It’s why we have no honors college or even honors classes, no grade de

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  've got to offer. So what does FIRST have to do with this Kelly Clarkson ... continued to mentor the team throughout college. Now, I am, to the best of my ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Cheney," "The Al Franken") and Boston area colleges ("The Crimson," "The ... while at MIT, the school offers us the opportunity to be as happy as ... like the traditional standard college essay I'd always heard about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened ... , conveniently being offered the very week you're struggling. You really thought

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear ... support those going through troubling times. During my time at college, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... from the academic life of college. Once during freshman year, I was tired ... being a wide-eyed froshling (freshman) at MIT (or any other college), the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  schools offer biology or BME (biomedical engineering), but there are very few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  in their seminars) and are open only to freshmen. The seminars offered ... preprofessional advisor through the MIT Careers Office; this advisor offers guidance ... 's supervisor asked him to work on a project for his Aero/Astro master's degree

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

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  amazing cook offers you this deal, take it.) My stomach was very happy that ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really ... the podium and undergrads on the other, and alternate awarding degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of college may not be ... college part-time, you should calculate your full-time term equivalency in ... college completed while still a high school student.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... an architecture discovery class. In general, I want to use college to ... , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  feelings before/throughout/after college and always, so they're kind of ... survive college. It was harder than I expected to rip myself away from that ... degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of ... MIT bubble. We’re in college but not part of it. Harvard makes us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  , and I just graduated from MIT in June with degrees in brain and ... college as when I left), and for three two-hour chunks of time every week ... opportunity-laden time as college. If you're going to take the easy road now

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006