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The Political Process For the civic-minded
Massachusetts loves Ted Kennedy is Illinois (loving Barack Obama). II. Les -
Blog / MIT Life
Karen: A Short History Finally.
(or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember -
Blog / Admissions
Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science
(to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... than 170 countries that offers accurate, comprehensive, and current ... graduate education and admissions at MIT, as well as American universities -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution
collection of short classroom labs offered in MIT introductory mechanical ... discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I ... for local students, as well as its MIT course offerings. STS.050 The -
Blog / Admissions
Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.
Yale and Cornell Universities are rightfully cause for shock and sadness ... issues in perspective. While universities are seeing larger numbers of ... essential that colleges offer comprehensive, accessible and affordable systems -
Blog / MIT Life
Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...
Universe” and soon it’s like, “Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it ... matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... finish, but don't get too embedded in your bubble universe [of college apps -
Blog / Academics & Research
Time-sensitive matters
's course catalog and looked closely at MIT's offerings and faculty in ... school at Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the University of California-Los Angeles, Boston University, and Harvard. I also know from -
Blog / Classes
[Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths
about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a ... pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to -
Blog / About Decisions
On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.
continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost -
Blog / About Decisions
Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.
one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant -
Blog / Academics & Research
Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…
, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper
within universities is part reality and part perception. True, but I now ... Science and Engineering for universities across the United States. This prompted similar studies in many other STEM research universities, such as -
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 ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an -
Blog / Admissions
Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ
offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... and Private Universities,” by Shadowen and Tulante, 49 Santa Clara L ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…
. Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for -
Blog / Academics & Research
So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.
remaining requirement for my physics degree (aside from my thesis): 8.07 or 8 ... , intermittency, and quasiperiodicity. Scaling and universality. Analysis of ... permission to go ahead with 8.351 for my physics degree restricted electives (8 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.
degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... 'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... E class I need for my degree, and I'm doing a lot better this term. I'm too -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge
-fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... other. Students do not apply directly to the university, but rather to -
Blog / Classes
Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation
-design-me-a-quick-robot-over-Skype-please)), and negotiating offers and deadlines. ^That paragraph was ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior