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• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to ... interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... of late weekend drama. Of course, at 9:20 PM or so, the MIT freshman

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... wind part my hair a little. At least my chair is made of comfortable ... at which people are moving along and to hear their blissful lack of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  interview at School C. This obviously creates a cohesive little community of ... undergrads at these interview weekends -- there were 8 or 9 of us out of 75 ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the ... was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... class again at MIT. MIT usually does not offer credit for classes taken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  some serious heat.  (according to accuweather it peaked at 108 ... -Yale-MIT trip to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, driving all the way ... : Update their blogs at least once every week or two Possess the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester ... '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  at CPW, and many of us ended up staying in touch throughout our time at ... . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what ... people at MIT who support you no matter what, give generously of their time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to ... about the teacher in Colorado who was suspended for his remarks in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  about computers? "At the end of the meeting, the organizers still called ... excited at the opportunity to solve all sorts of puzzles," she said. She ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... research or industry experience on top of an advanced degree if you

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

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  year, at the start of my admissions blogging in the spring and throughout ... of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... see another theme of the semester taking shape, or at least an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014