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Blog / Academics & Research
New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.
concentrations. The university research community has embraced these challenges ... MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to ... gallon. The tireless enthusiasm of students is one reason universities -
Blog / Admissions
Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.
this one IB exam, and my school doesn't offer it. My school offers very ... is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... course or attending any other university. -and- I know that there isn -
Blog / Academics & Research
Campos on Campus A True Westside Story
first from my high school to be accepted to universities such as MIT and ... but I would absolutely have to accept the offer. I loved the place ... University to start off the ECCSF reception ECCSF@MIT Winter 2009: Live -
Blog / Miscellaneous
I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.
that the universe expanded exponentially from a point, a singular space ... mind, in our mind, is that the universe didn't burst out into pre ... two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness -
Blog / Academics & Research
done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers
the University of Vermont). Quick disclaimer, this is not cause I was ... education's past, present, and future. 1 engineering degree And last but not least, I’ve earned my degree! I didn’t know if I would graduate -
Blog / Admissions
Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.
colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... picks are offered admission. I beg, I plead, I make ridiculous promises ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that -
Blog / How to Human
looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world
States. That day, I'd gone running in Flagstaff, then secured a free trial ... , about Auri, a girl who lives in the tunnels beneath an ancient university ... " is a real solid reflection of W's state of mind. Maybe I'm okay with -
FAQ / First-year application
I’m taking college classes, do I apply for transfer admission?
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FAQ / International applicants
What if my country has a different academic calendar?
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Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
physics-philosophy degree. Allow me to demonstrate with this participatory ... corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
. Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... , Pennsylvania, a few minutes from the Carnegie Mellon University campus, which I -
Blog / How to Human
how to meet curious people
at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program -
Blog / Personal Travel
Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.
one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their -
Blog / Admissions
Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas
We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... they universities, companies, nonprofits, startups, are doing these -
Blog / Life after MIT
On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.
universally intimidating questions that you don't really need to know the ... degrees!!! (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is -
Blog / About Decisions
So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it
at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... students who had aspired to study at the best universities since before they -
Blog / MIT Life
Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.
the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?
right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is -
Blog / Classes
How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)
degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two ... fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would