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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  the MIT bubble. People flock to San Francisco or stay in Cambridge and ... Anna has so eloquently stated. But my geographical scenery hasn't changed ... taught the best classes while finishing my undergraduate degree, and along

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  university in Cambridge. "They do things there that haven't been done before ... and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... baseball team, which this summer is trying to earn a third trip to the state

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer

  

  UniversityRed Line: Harvard10am and 2pm, Monday-Friday Tufts UniversityRed Line: Davis9am, 10:30am, 1:30pm, Monday-Friday Boston UniversityGreen Line ... UniversityGreen Line, E Train: Northeastern9am, 10am, 2pm, 3pm, Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP) Michigan State University High ... Young Scientists (PROMYS) The Ross Program Stanford University ... Program (SSEP) Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of-state

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  , most notably course 6 (EECS) -- biology doesn't offer one. (For that matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters degree to anyone -- masters degrees aren't really all that useful or common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  perpetual state of studying and exam-taking from your first exam to your last ... 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

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• 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 ... University Press), even those trying "faithfully" to represent Shakespeare ... technology. You can find all music courses offered here

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

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  over the universe one star planet thingy at a time. It has gotten violent, with people cursing, offering drinks (someone from Hungary is getting me a chocolate martini when he comes to the states!), and forming

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully ... under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great ... uninsured, covered by federal/state/county aided health insurance (Medicare

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  burg, and I could count down the miles to home. I live in State College ... Pleasant Gap. The town revolves around Penn State, is surrounded by farms ... university shields us from the recession and a sea of red shelters our tiny

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... ; Comp Sci) offers this and I'm pretty sure it's a lock if you have a ... because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day." and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  her bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1973 and a master's in ... . To Perlman, mathematics offered the best way to cut through the mumbo ... happened to be in the audience and offered her a job. She joined Digital in

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

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  allowed me to win a National AP Scholar award, win the AP State Scholar ... ), Science Olympiad two years (3 medals at state, two top 30 placings at ... university, and win at the ISEF international level. Notice how I had none of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... many different universities to see what kinds of programs and ... university's general approach to accommodating students who were undecided or

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  for grabs to a degree few still among the living have ever seen. And ... receiving their diplomas from President Reif and Provost Schmidt  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  undergrad and graduate students alike receive their diplomas in Killian Court ... identify their school and degree (red means PhD, or doctorate of philosophy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... received an email from MISTI stating that I would have to again postpone my program to the next IAP, accompanied with a sincere apology from S^3 stating

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in physics. During his time at the University of Chicago, Mohamed realized he ... .” The second thing that Mohamed stated was the excitement that exists on

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025