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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  december and was very busy with that(i am the head girl of my school)..and so ... high school diploma, yet it's not because I left early or didn't graduate ... . ------------------------------------- Paul wrote, "Our school is already done with the third quarter of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  : Along with the MIT QuestBridge Supplement, we require an official school transcript. If your counselor/school official already sent an official transcript through the QB application, please allow 7–10 business days for this
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with ... sign up for. But that also meant that I didn't have to miss school for ... -30 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill on the first few nights. To

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

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

  

  'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate ... Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  actually sure what the J "stands for," but it means that a course is offered ... count towards your degree in any of a number of majors. Courses designated ... and dread. 2.009 is sort of the be-all and end-all of a Course 2 degree

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  business outfit (go Yellow Team!) for the final presentation and am about to head off to a team meeting. Come to think of it, I've been so busy this ... Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  schools offer biology or BME (biomedical engineering), but there are very few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have ... that going to grad school can be just as rewarding as going to med school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on campus. Military training has existed at MIT ever since the Institute ... 'll have earned not only your degree, but a commission as an officer and
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... oatmeal ever at Small World Coffee, a sweet independent cafe that offers a ... -be climber: Later that night, I saw my friend from elementary school who is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... decision would "encourage schools to reopen" this fall, a statement that ... research pursuits. ICE is unable to offer the most basic answers about how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I ... Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  , most notably course 6 (EECS) -- biology doesn't offer one. (For that matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters degree to anyone -- masters degrees aren't really all that useful or common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great ... awesome time taking psychology in high school. That was the one class where ... .00 here at MIT, so maybe it'll eclipse my high school psych experience. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more to MIT than its rigor. MIT, yes, is one of the most difficult schools ... how the school works. I was someone who entered MIT expecting to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or ... schools. Students interested in a career in medicine or other health
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  think, learning from a friend that my high school robotics coach, Neil ... school and marathon training to dispense with the doomed ambition and just ... admissions, I tell them, not inaccurately, that, as someone with an degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  out this article about Dr. Perlman from Investor's Business Daily ... Investor's Business Daily February 9, 2006 Thursday NATIONAL EDITION By Pete ... her bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1973 and a master's in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school ... and urban planning degrees. As I learned more about the field and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... reading. In order to graduate with a degree in course 9, there is a rather ... offered] from the neuroscience list and 24.900 from the cognitive science

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005