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• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  where I lived until 8 then my family moved to sunny southern California ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to Death Valley and Southern California for eight days for CREDIT, took a ... averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  House, and Next House. The Harvard Bridge and the southern end of ... . Finally, a nearly 270-degree panorama of Boston and Cambridge. You can see ... It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  that when I move to California, I can appropriate some of the closet ... Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  diploma, but it might be a good idea). You cannot enroll in a degree program ... . Recently, he was offered University of Michigan merit scholarship($32 ... . ------------------------------------- Scott wrote, "I was wondering how much each part of the application is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  in the category of Plant Science, representing the Southern Appalachian ... Engineering Fair in California Rishi S. '20, "A Novel Method of Reverse ... ," finalist in the category of Physics and Astronomy, representing the Southern

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• 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 / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern California for ten years now, but unlike other sun-loving transplants, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Boston. In California, driving was the primary form of transportation ... California, the land of horrible to non-existent public transportation. The ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  texts and phone and video calls do carry over some of the California ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• 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
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  study conducted by the University of California’s Standardized Testing ... offer any remedial math classes ‘below’ the level of single ... . However, our research shows there is a degree of preparation below which a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to Sacramento for the first central meeting of my California trip. Over ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  my spring break in Southern California, replete with the literary ... spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... [annotation note="relatively"] middle of no-where[/annotation] California

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• 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