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• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on campus, but if you don’t pass a swim test and complete 8 Physical Education (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  me and dancing at graduation with a diploma in each hand!

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter ... to complete the requirements for both degrees at the end of five years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  Intercollegiate Competition. Schools from all over the East Coast, from University of Virginia to our neighbor Boston University, brought contingents as ... registration expenses. This coming season, NYU and University of Delaware are

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  concentrations. The university research community has embraced these challenges ... MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to ... gallon. The tireless enthusiasm of students is one reason universities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  years earlier, we drove 7 hours to the Florida state capitol the day after ... cold marble floor of the state capitol, surrounded by federal agents and ... . And with detailed polling data, state legislatures have disenfranchised

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  more such resources in the United States. ODL Residential Education The ... available degrees are Supply Chain Management, Principles of Manufacturing ... graduation in addition to a degree in their major. In a politically brilliant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with ... -30 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill on the first few nights. To reiterate, it was m-i-n-u-s t-h-i-r-t-y d-e-g-r-e-e-s F

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees ... germanium solid-state detector. The ionization chamber is kept at a chilly ~80

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... is defined as entropy  log(# states), a sort of quantifier of ... the 2600-Year History of the University, Online Learning Resources from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but ... else. If you attend school outside the United States, and have teachers ... for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  also visited Dale's cousin's house, whose husband is a dean at the state-owned university, and whose students will be visiting us on Wednesday. These students ... States to help with the electricity issue, but its power can only be used

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn ... Matt Damon). For instance, I enjoyed Introduction to Solid State ... about my life's goal of designing solid-state polymer batteries. I emailed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God ... , Rhode Island, fractals, Duran Duran, and the universe in general. reg: i ... California who thought Delaware was a midwestern state. Anonymous: You drive on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... Political Science PhD student, had to say:   University funding (sources ... institutes and universities with regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... general idea of religion which was that of a universe ordered by a supreme ... to Physics. She also had to state that her book had been reviewed by a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  the Boston University Theatre, where my advisor has bought play tickets ... Boston University Theatre. The weather is still nice, and nope, I’m still ... heels of a fugue-like, barely conscious state (psets, programming, enough

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  that the universe expanded exponentially from a point, a singular space ... mind, in our mind, is that the universe didn't burst out into pre ... two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 14% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 19% Abroad 10% States represented 49 Countries represented 49 Schooling: Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006