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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  Physics degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day ... "Hell yeah. Downside is, he might be too busy to advise (?)" I admit that ... honest: Alan Guth is probably a very busy man. According to his faculty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming ... in high school. My dad was a football/basketball/baseball star. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  school EVER!" (Just kidding, but it does start each day off rather epic ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... high school math teacher's doppelganger. 1b) Lecture for 20

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... about engineering leadership? There are a lot of different businesses out ... company! In school, we’re trained to ease into classes, but in small

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  are a lot of core requirements that must be completed before a degree ... dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... degree from the MechE department and no official recognition from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... any work, but then life happened and school exploded and my to-do list ... was offering two free tickets. Needless to say, I applied with excessive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  residences and businesses that graced the choked part of lower Saxony. Outside ... Melissa offered him with gratitude. He took two sips and sputtered, “What if ... diploma—” “Gee thanks,” she said, rolling her eyes. “And well, you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  almost definitely want to go to grad school. None of these facts are ... my decision to mentally commit to grad school, as well as talk about my ... to go to grad school v. the ethics of career choice vi. conclusion

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  2007. In 2005, Alia founded a nonprofit business, Emerge Global, which ... years, he has weekly visited local Cambridge schools to tutor students in ... to Oxford University to read for a degree in the Philosophy, Politics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  , instead of taking a break between school and work), and let ourselves bask ... [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at MIT"]grad school.[/annotation] We stayed in small-town hotels and smoky

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  response, we are reshaping MIT. By giving MIT’s five Schools a shared ... school? What is the difference? A: The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will work with and across all five of MIT’s existing schools. Its naming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... , which I participated in during high school. Then my dad was like, "I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I ... study all the time. Maybe your friends are all going to school X and want ... opportunities. Just like any school, we have students who could fit into the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  least it would have been, had I been at any other school. As spring ... try again and bring the trophy (aka your happiness) home :) ¹ diploma

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That ... high school and this gym class provided a nice opportunity to brush-up on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  medical school: about the application process, about what makes a competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the requirements, etc. I knew nothing about graduate school. As I began to realize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  — jointly offered between Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth ... skills. The Course 1-12 Climate System Science and Engineering degree program, jointly offered by the Departments of Civil and Environmental

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... , "Everyday I come home from school and bite my nails while I open up the MIT ... cognitive sciences, however very few people offer that as a major and so my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005