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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  Cambridge University as a whole, but instead apply to a specific college, of ... ... it takes a couple great conversations and an entire term of hanging out ... the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  research or industry experience on top of an advanced degree if you ... This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT, the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  our Brown University friends, who were touring startups as part of their ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  and affiliated companies (collectively, NBC Universal) are the owners of ... similar activities) of the NBC Universal Property or Properties listed below ... that use of the NBC Universal Property or Properties in the manner

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  some fun before chaos resumes again. In case you missed it, thousands of us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  We're aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern ...  high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  College's High School Summer Institute. Also, University of Miami's Summer ... I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... some of you may want to look into, what with summer often involving large

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  sign to hang on the side of the coop. The structure they built actually ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I ... been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the end of the post for accessibility! — [visually_hidden]Querida Ana

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... , thermodynamically, electrically, and philosophically. So, twenty hours of MATLAB and ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  engineering seniors at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Later this ... Since you're all probably sick of hearing about my summer, I emailed ... out of the ~20 cheerleaders on the squad. I think I'll just list what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015