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• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  in the country offers a degree that combines computer science and urban ... For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester ... '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  at CPW, and many of us ended up staying in touch throughout our time at ... . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what ... people at MIT who support you no matter what, give generously of their time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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 ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  about computers? "At the end of the meeting, the organizers still called ... excited at the opportunity to solve all sorts of puzzles," she said. She ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... research or industry experience on top of an advanced degree if you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won't have any impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  everything, I picked a spot at the back corner of the room. Right at noon, the ... minutes later, I found myself holding my weights at a 90 degree angle to my ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 ... for them. Congratulations to the Class of 2018. May the wind be ever at ... ; The commencement stage at dawn   flowers of MIT  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... "]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do ... looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  Lord, dean of admissions at Haverford College, which posted student ... Jones, the former director of communications at M.I.T.'s admissions office, began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009