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• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  . Opportunities are available for 2012 in fields such as engineering, physics ... , is home to the country’s most important universities and research ... , universities, research institutes and NGOs around the world. In addition to Chile

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... newly established STARS College Network, we plan to extend our engagement

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  doing questions which Physics majors do in other universities. Just how ... postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  getting me the physical CD of this album for my birthday.  Fav. Tracks ... stores or friends. So the music I buy is limited by physical transfer. And ... -pop" which to me sounds how it felt to apply to college, haha. Kind of like how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]tensor[/annotation] is. The problem is that physics is hard. Really hard, and in a ... that. Physics is so mind-bogglingly deep, which is both what I love and ... even bother. The thing is, I don't need physics, not really, for the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  college students are thinking about their summers, then what are you doing ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time ... had never been rigorously exposed to physics and programming until I got

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill ... amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• 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

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  , physics or astronomy at your university?" Unlike many countries ... have not taken and did not plan to take physics, which i think you had ... . However, you should try to take some kind of physics if you can, if not at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics ... physics. If you're wondering why I would do such a thing, and you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  universe, and yet is filled with bleak existential thoughts. if you've seen ... "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and ... from the rest of the universe, surrounded by our own skin as people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• 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 ... brings a $40,000 college scholarship. More than 10,000 students applied ... university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... physics i that covers material over a longer interval that goes into iap ... 's smaller, and even though physics is probably my least favorite science

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... friends in Heidelberg find this idea of "campus life" weird. "University" is ... the resources to find out for themselves! When I think back to pre-college

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... : Calvin and Hobbes Advice about applying to college/MIT: There's no one ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... underrepresented group in American universities is low income students) Trivia. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway through high school, I began to feel uncomfortable with physics. There was ... ) discussed why he majored in physics, and then went on to medical school and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History ... presidential election, Massachusetts public schools, university riots in the '60s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  from Ohio State University told me that the 8.01 Physics I (also a GIR ... to talk about more than just The Process. Every college is different ... based on reputation alone. So, this AMA was about life, the universe, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017