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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  schools -- including many international schools -- have no concept of ... currently attending school; MIT has all of my grades." You got all that? We ... of business!

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  15, so I'm not planning to hear from most of my schools until late ... The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  pursuit of math and science and taking the toughest classes her school ... a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an ... -female or all-male suites and whatnot. Many of my friends at other schools don ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  % Number of different high schools represented: 848 Just For Fun Most ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  school? What is the difference? A: The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will work with and across all five of MIT’s existing schools. Its naming ... College connect to the schools and other parts of MIT? A: As MIT’s senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... rankings or someone else's list of "best" colleges. A school missing from ... 's definition of a "good" school. Certainly there were schools I liked more than

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  of school per week (Wednesdays are researved for mentorship and inquiry ... 've been going to a magnet school (I think that's what it is) half of every ... school has one of the worst science programs possible. (And it's not like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  night and write my statement of purpose. (For grad school, you don't get ... relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo. Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of ... high school, but this was nothing like that. Instead of soldering ... cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  I bring greetings from "the little redbrick school up the Charles River" -- although my classes are all at the medical school campus, which ... than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... year. The internship was pitched to me as a better class than any school could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a full time job offer and don't get into graduate school. I get neither a ... offer as the regular part of the aforementioned hike. The benefits that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020