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  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  of their own. And when offered an opportunity to come out of the ... so many of their friends and classmates, also dream to study at MIT. ... rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... own adventure, and there are an infinity of options to choose from ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  those of us who faint at the sight of blood, there are lots of other ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... came to claim their diplomas, I lost track of my friends as I was taking ... front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  of the links at the bottom of this entry, and rest assured that almost ... -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... E. Chemical Engineering, or Course 10, is sort of at the intersection, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  has been owning at life lately and winning tons of awards...more about ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... 'm hosed beyond all imagining, but as it's basically my LAST WEEK AT MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... quit. Valuing becoming better means saying yes to projects at the edge of ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  healthy! My program has at least three hours of lecture every day and the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

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

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... wind part my hair a little. At least my chair is made of comfortable ... at which people are moving along and to hear their blissful lack of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... of late weekend drama. Of course, at 9:20 PM or so, the MIT freshman

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to ... interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the ... was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  interview at School C. This obviously creates a cohesive little community of ... undergrads at these interview weekends -- there were 8 or 9 of us out of 75 ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... class again at MIT. MIT usually does not offer credit for classes taken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006