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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  this one IB exam, and my school doesn't offer it. My school offers very ... is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... could, for example, self-study, or take the class at a local college. 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... to buy college things with my dad, possibly the trip when I forgot what ... . I will hopefully be graduating in a year or two with both degrees. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  purely academic high school. So, we really wanted college to have classes ... to other local colleges! There is a blog section of our website where ... classes offered through course 4, which are very cool, but these are fairly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  for when they're reviewing college applications, how the pandemic has ... -friendly application. What does MIT look for when you're reviewing college applications ... college admissions decision of any given applicant is overdetermined by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... offers an Academic Expo, which showcases all of the majors available at MIT ... with an emphasis on first year GIRs. TSR^2 offers weekly pset nights

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  has to offer and talk to professors who do everything. (I talked to ... see, very concretely, the huge range of opportunities that are on offer ... grateful. 😅 But still, the people are fundamentally what make every college

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesn't really offer 5.13 or 5.310 either, and so because MIT splits them into two ... in college are definitely not like languages in high school. Yeah, they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  've studied MIT's course offerings extensively - multiple times! - while planning out my four years of college even though I haven't even finished ... . Much to my language-loving little heart's dismay, MIT doesn't offer

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... entire student, not *just* the academics, and the college experience is not

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  ). I interviewed with Morgan, and he offered me the job on the spot, so I ... check this out. Ben offered me the blog job because he'd seen me posting on College Confidential... and I started posting on CC because there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... a master's degree have to write a master's thesis and are awarded a non-terminal master's degree en route to the PhD. So although I didn

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  think about butter the same way again) Not the same few colleges: The Claremont Colleges in Southern California, including Pomona College (whose admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... really didn’t contribute to me finishing my course 20 degree, so now I have a degree in Chinese, but I have to go for another year to finish my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  , is about to graduate with a course 6 degree, numerous musical accolades

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  ) Quinton caught me napping at South Station last week :( (2) IT'S 99 DEGREES

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... second degree in physics because I want to get a PhD in physics after I ... dropped the second degree. And when I apply to grad school, I’ll never know

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT last year.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006