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• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... you have enrolling in another university in a degree-seeking program ... enroll as a degree-seeking student at another university, you can only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... to say no one would hire me, because by August I had two job offers ... was, me and my degrees, pouring coffee for the elderly and [annotation

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• 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 / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  solutions...The Institute has much to offer in terms of the kind of education ... University of California system after Proposition 209; Kidder and Gándara’s expansive report on what the University of California system had tried to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• 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.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... there are a lot of universe expansion images on my Facebook newsfeed ... 14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes, we hand all the real ones out, and read all the names of everyone ... 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  go to other universities. The magic of the Internet, cheap airfare, and ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

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

  IM sports totally rock

  

  graduate of my favorite school in the universe, and have a hockey jersey (and ... ; Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  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 ... reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sake of adding the name of a second subject to their diploma. I'm really ... important feature of your degree track should be later flexibility. Will it ... I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  /animatics of Steven Universe episodes. It was SO cool to see how such simple and ... , very rigorous, there are tons of really cool classes they offer, and we ... different degrees! Art classes MIT does not offer: It may have been evident

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  neighbor Lizz came in to offer her daily dose of humor. “What do you call ... have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a ... that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of ... . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006