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• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than ... song Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs, and Pokémon for nostalgia) After

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Mehta, The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History ... . ________________________ Imagine: you are a prospective university student in India, 600 BC ... university education. You are confident that you will receive generous

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... ="attachment_107004" align="alignnone" width="300"] the universe (Siri) has spoken ... to be universal enough that there’s almost always some interpretation

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... ., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a handful of Ivy League colleges. But it was M.I.T. that pursued him the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess '92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess ... of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sought after by top colleges -- a remarkable achievement for any teen, and particularly one who will be the first in his family to attend college full time. Zinser will graduate tonight having aced every college-level Advanced

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• 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 community college may apply for transfer admission. If you are in your first
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  those "get your child ready for college!" lists; when I read those lists ... assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal ... ="only REAL CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP THOUGH, none of you Americans' terrible fake

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Princeton, Cornell, Haverford College, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, University of ... , 2009 valedictorian of Chisum High School and Paris Junior College ... &M University-Commerce for middle school students, high school students, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education ... that I was somewhat disheartened that Physical Education, a class I hated intensely disliked in high school, would follow me to college. However

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible College, for one. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Bob Jones University, Florida International University. Wellesley. So when I finally got

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  /'02/'03 = 88.5, 108, 132" or "Current AP classes: Physics C, Euro History ... your name, MIT ID, and date of birth on it. Not the same few colleges: Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  nourished by the university."]Aulus.[/annotation] (Me: "Mom, if you were my ... overshadow the fact that he truly needed help. So, I made some fake sourdough ... were fake. I was so happy -- but I was so nervous. Was he too cold? Did

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... in some suite in Branford College (a residential college of Yale). The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  populate universities have already made the choice to eschew finance and ... Influence People?” It feels like high school all over again: who’s fake, who’s doing it just for college admissions, who’s for real, and does it even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  University's Summer College, and Harvard Summer School's Secondary School ... program's participating colleges and universities (which include Williams ... College's High School Summer Institute. Also, University of Miami's Summer

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006