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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  trading, and research. I have never worked at one of these jobs, but from ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks). You can also do this sort of work at places like the government's Office

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... , but still well above our pre-pandemic baseline of ~9,000 EA applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the ... at his feet, there are reeds in the form of the Roman numerals for 24 ... background, the Stata Center (opened at the beginning of my junior year at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the research at MIT, some of which I was involved with, if successful research

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  stand at roughly 70 degrees. I’d drawn up the designs earlier that week ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  medicine at the slightest sign of a recurring cough or a stuffy nose that ... 's worth of medicine. At MIT, I'm covered under the MIT Extended Student ... for $11,000 USD, the cost of a 3-day inpatient stay at the county

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -- all feats of engineering he tried at camp -- were very much his style ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... valedictorian Trevor Zinser reacts as an impromptu tower of paper cups collapses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  videos, compiled from the great people at MIT TechTV and (of course) You ... For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  degree of expertise about Japan that may have a significant impact on their ... entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... international relations at all, you should definitely check it out. REISCHAUER

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a ... just so happy at these events and it was amazing to get together with ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... still hard at work cutting the final pieces of cardboard. 5:23 PM

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at ... , they seemed to have trouble deciding which side of the hallway offered

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  dropped out of high school and earned a GED at 17. So I'm a first ... department/school, at Medical, at Student Support Services, and so on. Lack of ... one happy profile out of many different ones at MIT. All I want is for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  ... getting to go home at 5 pm and have the rest of the night to yourself ... As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  each other's lives. Even with at least four months of separation, though ... weekend of the BCS championship game in Gainesville with my friends at UF ... I'm back at Senior Haus. It feels great - already I've been part of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  more than 8,000 students at MIT over the past 25 years, more than half of ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007