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• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  retake the GIR! D’s get degrees! Feeling refreshed at the start of the ... .  Over the weekend, I graduated with honors with a master of science degree ... shaking my hand while I hold up an MIT diploma.[/caption] [caption id

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... experience at college. Talking about the “living situation” aspect specifically, I’d expected to come to college becoming best friends with my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  , you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now ... your college choices and attend other colleges' admit weekends (I know ... time exploring other college campuses (though, you're not allowed to have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  are a lot of core requirements that must be completed before a degree ... degree from the MechE department and no official recognition from the ... that they already knew what they wanted to do with their degree, so they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative ... between me and an MIT diploma is ICE 2. I remember lounging around my suite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... of such a fine point. I also stopped using pencil in college--most of ... single high school class I’ve taken that was most like a college course

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  feels like it's made for college students, what with all the long study ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  about sending SAT scores to colleges. I intially thought that they are ... a high school diploma from any US school. I'm planning on taking APs ... really need a High School diploma. Should I just take the APs? (I'm sure I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  here’s the (very long winded) beginning of my college experience, through ... my senior year both stressing over and romanticizing college life ... yearning for the shiny, fake, and unattainable, too. So the moment I noticed

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  weekend-long conference in Chicago (what a city!) sponsored by the College Board. The conference brought together admissions officers, college ... socioeconomic diversity in college admissions, among moany of my weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  self, myself just before entering college, I probably would have said ... colleges - go far. When I think about myself in high school, the way I ... 's leading experts on polyketide synthase, never baked a ransom cake for a fake

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  on American Indian reservations attain a four-year college degree ... Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for ... his degree he would also like to return to live on the reservation where

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree in mechanical engineering -- actually I got two degrees. I had so much ... is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  ’s like I’m putting on a persona. Every word sounds fake. Or maybe I should ... on Florey (5E), bringing my cat to college, cleaning out an extremely ... college, where it was slowly accumulating dust in one of my drawers since I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  collecting donations for a college scholarship fund, should you, like me, be interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... .... Being a second-semester senior in college sure feels different from being

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor-filled college admissions discussion sites; this one made me laugh out loud: I ... true that students who have achieved a national or international degree

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  a diploma?". As a homeschooler, I won't enter college with an offical ... 's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... college board they say they are already sent, however in my application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006