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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  ) I remember sitting at a debate tournament in Colorado looking through ... that I don't want a job that comes out of a poli-sci degree, but instead ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National ... answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... offers. Thus, this semester marks a brand new start for me at MIT. Moral ... journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from one of the best ... enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... Learn offers courses based on the idea of learning through conversations. Over 3

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... , there's an extrememly wide variety of people at MIT. Your dad's stereotype ... school. Two of her close friends from MIT and a number of other students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  sash. Our class year appears at the bottom of the class shank. The font ... and a worker at an anvil, symbolizing the union of knowledge and ... controversy from reoccurring, all of the sophomores received a survey at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  cuisine, and coming from Colorado where there is a decent amount of really ... heart of Kendall Square, and named for being on the very East side of MIT ... map for some spatial reference: It functions as a bunch of little pop

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  at you. Pursuing the simple ideal of being a good student forced me to ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... given, is at least common enough. I hoped my intellect and my abilities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  this is that not receiving an offer of admission does not make an ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  eat at the campus taqueria Navigating the flood of fellow students ... ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early ... Since last summer, we here at MIT [Admissions] Labs have been working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... line started forming at X - 2 o clock. Bloggers have a way of running ... some classes at Hogwarts and see if there are any similar ones at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• 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
• Blog / Events

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

  

  alumni wear it so that they're looking back at the MIT skyline. As of that ... in elaborate robes, waved at Prof. Bertschinger, accepted my diploma ... train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... deal of preparation and are significantly harder than most exams at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now. My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006