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

  

  January?" Please email admissions at mit dot edu to advise of January tests ... Freshman)? 1. You can be at MIT for all of, part of, or none of IAP -- it ... 's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  of Cooper, Project STEEM mentors at Texas A&M University-Commerce, are ... himself to school. At that time, he didn't crack the top 20 percent of his ... exam. Entering O'Bryant at the start of his 10th-grade year marked a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos of very fancy automatic control systems at work, like variable ... of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  have had a lot of interesting conversations at my fraternity about how T ... (Principle Investigator) at some University. A PI is the head of a lab at a ... MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... deal of preparation and are significantly harder than most exams at MIT ... promptly forget a great deal of the material they supposedly absorbed. At

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  , I could be a BME major at Johns Hopkins, sat in the nook of some cafe ... reality of situation, though, is that the road is not at all the same. I ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  Library. Twice. Sat in a serene fake temple at the Museum. Saw masterpieces ... . Strained arms with sacks of cheap fruit from the Haymarket. Stared plenty at ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... say that at chemical engineering faculty luncheons and choice of major ... -year programs. In fact, for the chemical engineering degree, instead of doing a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown ... , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  to produce a product at the end of the semester.  During the past few ... of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... , gotten some lab experience at UC Davis trying to develop a fungal

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• 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…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  this summer, which is sort of embarrassing since I keep making reference to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008