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• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... offers. Thus, this semester marks a brand new start for me at MIT. Moral ... journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from one of the best ... enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... Learn offers courses based on the idea of learning through conversations. Over 3

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... , there's an extrememly wide variety of people at MIT. Your dad's stereotype ... school. Two of her close friends from MIT and a number of other students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  sash. Our class year appears at the bottom of the class shank. The font ... and a worker at an anvil, symbolizing the union of knowledge and ... controversy from reoccurring, all of the sophomores received a survey at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... , when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been ... later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  them. [Also, for those of you at MIT, the Muslim Student Association is ... anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  eat at the campus taqueria Navigating the flood of fellow students ... ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early ... Since last summer, we here at MIT [Admissions] Labs have been working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... line started forming at X - 2 o clock. Bloggers have a way of running ... some classes at Hogwarts and see if there are any similar ones at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... 's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... deal of preparation and are significantly harder than most exams at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  alumni wear it so that they're looking back at the MIT skyline. As of that ... in elaborate robes, waved at Prof. Bertschinger, accepted my diploma ... train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave ... 's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... breakfast but the line was ridiculous. At 7:45 am (most people hadn't arrived

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  /really cool grown-ups. As a part of their “residency,” they put on events at ... at life outside of MIT every now and then. In any case, go Cards! And ... what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  't know any seniors. This year, however, I knew tons of seniors, so there were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014