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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... counseling at Norfolk Academy, in Virginia, says one of his seniors was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  present. I could live in Seattle, even. At the end of 2019, I made my ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... option. Or at least that's what me and my podmates discovered this past quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very ... doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... yes, you CAN major in art at MIT. Here it has more of a studio art ... So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  at MIT. Some of these include: Meal plans 5-star restaurants ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... my floormates and stare at their food until they offer me some, or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most challenging coursework available to you at your high school, treating both AP
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to ... , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... slow start. Rachel, Elli and I started out the day at a leisurely hour of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees ... through the bottom of the ornament, but if you squint at the dark blue one ... ! :) Here's a photo of the bench you work at while making things; I didn

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  Cage, 8:30-9:30 PM. Friday -- Tour of my UROP lab, meeting at Lobby 7, 1 ... were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... evolution and ecology and plants, none of which I've taken courses in at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  after MIT, and doing a bunch of ‘lasts’ here at MIT (last DT dance show ... of their life, but at the same time…. I don’t want to say bye just yet ... course 20 degree, so I am technically a 19 but kind of a 20…….” Seems like

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  /CEO and host at this conference, is actually a graduate of MIT’s material ... experience. At an (guestimated) average of $5 per lunch, food truck meals are ... event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  at MIT. What follows are summaries of each presentation. But first ...  (MIT Sloan School of Management) shared his favorite thing at MIT, which is 15 ... invention of the printing press. Here’s an example of why that’s true at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a ... parts of the job I loved plus more: I get to help students at office hours ... 'm doing research, the main part of my actual degree. To be honest, so far, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022