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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , I need familiarity. At that moment, the novelty of college and MIT ... in college - but, of course, those things are created, and not found ... Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations ... announced the founding of the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing ... have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... Schwarzman College of Computing aims to: * foster breakthroughs in computing ... academic structure of the new entity: Q: Why is this a college, rather than a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering ... experience made her re-evaluate many of her assumptions about college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  commerce. Brown, a graduate of Middlebury College and St. John’s University ... ." Craighead's list of colleges that he considered also included Stanford ... 12-year history of the program, the college graduation rate of Ron

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... their college of choice. Admissions are tough and Cambridge engineers are ... College, I am one of 17 math majors (mathmos as the natives say) who is

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a ... writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... college admissions practices can be very different from those of public colleges/universities. Because they carry a different mandate, publics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  : community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other ... standing at an accredited college, university, technical institute, or ... year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("Mass ... of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• 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

  New kid on the block

  

  ”, “Harry-Potter-style city”, a world-famous university with 61 Nobel Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave ... or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• 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