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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  solid-state materials, which I think are extremely interesting and I ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... more about the culture and customs at other universities. i spent all my ... first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  . Last semester, I was worried about graduating and finishing with a degree in materials science and engineering. Now, I've finished that degree, and I'm two classes and one thesis away from a second degree in writing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it ... to do well on the next two exams, final, and psets for us to pass the ... exam. See how we do. And based on that, make a decision on whether we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... school apps now, and am back from blogging hiatus! I've spent so much time

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

  The blogs are back in town

  

  week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... (aka "Moneyman") has also been updating his Money @ MIT blog and ... taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... ) of my essays and how 20 year old me thinks about what 17 year old me ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  is universal, and many Ethiopians themselves do not understand rural ... is and just live in this state of not being fine, knowing that it will ... Content Note: This post contains mentions of death, depression, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your ... first day of the term where all the first year students to the university ... , Gonville and Caius, just had its matriculation dinner a couple of days ago

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... ever: Delete your Public folder. Even if you try and fix it two minutes later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the ... Universe, will be teaching 8.07 (Electromagnetism II) this fall - and has ... About How The Universe Works", and working out pros and cons using

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  and Reading Comprehension. A familiarity with national and state laws ... hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don ... supposed to be postmarked by May 1. Both students who are and are not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and ... formation of the United States - for three hours every week and pore through ... a storyteller, and although she is often fond of stating how she

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , go home, go abroad, train, work, come to campus and chill, come to campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat ... ="attachment_111599" align="alignnone" width="300"] sarah and i on our way to a wallows

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  United States (read Ben's post and Vincent's post). I read both of them ... , special because it was short and seasonal things only lasted so long. Life ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  class includes students from Kansas and from Kenya. The class includes students from Alexandria, Virgina and Alexandria, Egypt. The class includes students who have served in the armed forces and students who have spent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent ... permanent resident, live in the US, and not have your 18th birthday before ... , including $50,000 scholarship winners Jamie Rubin '07 and Daniel Kane '07

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  home countries, domestic public universities and military academies; four year universities and two year junior/community colleges. There were a ... We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008