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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... over to the Stata Center like nobody's business, where the auditorium had ... . I thought it'd be fitting to get my book signed for my high school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• 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

  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

  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

  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 / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  universities don't have undergraduate urban planning degrees and no other school in the country offers a degree that combines computer science and urban ... school when our AP European History teacher had us think about our long

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• 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
• 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 / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... 's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... experiencing them. I mildly detested my last couple years of high school during

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• 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
• Blog / How to MIT

  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 / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... were unable to offer admission were also really great students and people ... applies. The inability to offer admission can leave you thinking that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004