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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of ... staffers why, having gotten a degree from such a prestigious university, they ... admissions staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  . That's a lot of degrees between the two of them, and these guys know what ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  University of Washington. She's also penned books and technical articles on ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  graduate of my favorite school in the universe, and have a hockey jersey (and ... ; Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 99 degrees is 99 degrees. End of ... ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 108 degrees is 108 degrees. End of ... Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  solutions...The Institute has much to offer in terms of the kind of education ... University of California system after Proposition 209; Kidder and Gándara’s expansive report on what the University of California system had tried to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv ... reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... , more than I probably realize. So, while I may not think of my self as a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  process. Universities are never-ending places to learn — in and out of the ... Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won't have any impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  neighbor Lizz came in to offer her daily dose of humor. “What do you call ... have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a ... that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... 't award second bachelor's degrees. As long as you don't already have an undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world

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

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

  

  go to other universities. The magic of the Internet, cheap airfare, and ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sake of adding the name of a second subject to their diploma. I'm really ... important feature of your degree track should be later flexibility. Will it ... I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011