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• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  song Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs, and Pokémon for nostalgia) After

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question ... of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... corporation. MIT will challenge you more than just about any other university

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  semester across an ocean when MIT already offers the best engineering classes ... year, I ended up applying for the IAP Madrid program offered by the ... beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... thing. They are wonderful people. The BU (Boston University) Astronomy ... going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... supervisors, all from different universities. I actually applied to this program ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... start on your degree. (For the vast majority, that’s not the case, and ... , and I never gave a passing thought to university admissions as a high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  pick up my diploma, President Reif will say "wait, who are you? we don't have a diploma for you. do you even go here?" Or maybe in a little over

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... Mechanical Engineering was pretty easy. I thought that an undergraduate degree ... -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... than 170 countries that offers accurate, comprehensive, and current ... graduate education and admissions at MIT, as well as American universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  collection of short classroom labs offered in MIT introductory mechanical ... discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I ... for local students, as well as its MIT course offerings. STS.050 The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Yale and Cornell Universities are rightfully cause for shock and sadness ... issues in perspective. While universities are seeing larger numbers of ... essential that colleges offer comprehensive, accessible and affordable systems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Universe” and soon it’s like, “Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it ... matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... finish, but don't get too embedded in your bubble universe [of college apps

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's course catalog and looked closely at MIT's offerings and faculty in ... school at Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the University of California-Los Angeles, Boston University, and Harvard. I also know from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a ... pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  within universities is part reality and part perception. True, but I now ... Science and Engineering for universities across the United States. This prompted similar studies in many other STEM research universities, such as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an

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

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... and Private Universities,” by Shadowen and Tulante, 49 Santa Clara L ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012