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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  done any research in high school (though, of course, almost everyone will ... in a secondary schools' science fair and made it to the finals of that ... Wharton School of Business? or can I acquire the same business education in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  never heard of an international science olympiad. My high school wasn ... professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  visual saliency of a graphic design; recently, we have been working on ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... out what parts of the brain process which visual cues. The conference

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  internship was offering me a snapshot of what my life could look like, a year ... IAP (Independent Activities Period), MIT offers micro-internships, which ... skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the GIRs. It's one of the ways I learned that MIT was designed for ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), and the HASS ... was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... Bridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note: Along with the MIT QuestBridge Supplement, we require an official school
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  pursuit of math and science and taking the toughest classes her school ... a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles ... , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  school required everyone to do some form of self-directed research project ... supercomplex origami, and Meenakshi Mukerji, prolific designer of modular origami ... intricate ways throughout the design. I first learned about this type of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  next entry will probably be about MIT's School of Architecture + Planning ... just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005