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• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... ), you need something to keep them busy. Now, as Hannah is demonstrating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  reception You really have been busy during the school year on campus. What ... interview. I know that you are really busy and involved in a bunch of things ... attended Francis Polytechnic High School , which is a public school in Sun

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  schools around the world. The Residential MITx platform offers students ... weekends on campus: Splash and Spark. Splash is a weekend for high school ... collection of short classroom labs offered in MIT introductory mechanical

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state," as ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and ... school. Every single person in Maine is apparently much better than I am at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming ... much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree that I wouldn't have wanted to switch high schools, since leaving it at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  people have already had lab experience in high school, how on earth will I ... universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... , that includes inexperienced freshmen with little more to offer than

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in ... school students." M.I.T.'s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER annoying, because it's alphabetical by school rather than what is to me the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  . There are now 37 AP courses. My high school offered just 3: Calculus ... high schools that offered zero APs. Similarly, I had classmates who attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering ... said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we ... : School, Study, SATs: No Wonder Teens Are Stressed Chelsea Halprin, a junior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... plushie I had won from a school fair years ago. And I knew instantly ... baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  high school have weak (no AP or honors, iirc) preparation, but I also ... . Sadoway on teaching freshmen: "It’s true, we’re very busy, but those of us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  date rolled around, I would run to my car after school and speed (I mean ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping ... had found out that eight people from my high school had been accepted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was ... of anything other than more school had never crossed their minds ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... I'm going to schools like MIT, I should probably not bypass any

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006