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• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in ... worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... matters worse, they invited other people in my place and accommodated to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to ... institutions with the society that generates and sustains them. Perhaps these ... In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... students of 1885-1895 and the MIT students of today. By 1895, 38 States, 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I haven't managed to ... and tell you roughly what happened. We were assigned station numbers based on major (Course 8 was Station 19) and asked to report to Johnson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the ... Daniel Mirny and Lenny Martinez    Pictured: half of the auditorium

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Washington University. I was sharing an efficiency double with Rose '05, and we ... , MD, home of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... lab is in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Thinking back

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... ) at the Institute. STAND and Amnesty International are hosting two ... die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  money and a big research grant, and a state-school with a free-ride. I ... . It's only 50 degrees today and everyone is hanging out outside, because ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  university has its own institutional priorities, its own culture, and its own ... Bachelors degree from your university, we will not be able to consider you (we ... process and selectivity of MIT with University of Cambridge. Is it possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... feels right at home at the institute — she loves the anime club, and that ... interactivity and creativity of those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  , and there's a couple others offered for incoming freshman, including ESG ... were anything like me last year, you will probably be jumping up and down ... bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  ) and see that I've finished all 17 of my General Institute Requirements ... '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great ... interview offers -- one from UCLA's ACCESS program (linked above) and one from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  currently hold an undergraduate degree. Students who have already completed a bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field ... application website and admissions requirements.  
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... , or a universal open-mindedness and tolerance of difference. perhaps ... SONG: days and days - fun home WALK: memorial drive > harvard bridge

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  knowledge) I am the only person elected Governor of two states, New York and ... Hometown: Queens, NY High schools: Benjamin N. Cardozo (Bayside, NY) and William Penn (New Castle. Delaware) College, year, major: Norfolk State

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  educational institutions offered by a residential education, whether that's at ... ) and the transcript (immediately below that) here on the blogs. ‍Eric ... MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services talks about what MIT looks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  universally accepted now and laughed at 50 years later. There are so many ... universities really be? This time, that extra perspective is not mine, but that ... serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  opportunities it offered and loved being able to talk to students and their ... or university. The lectures, concerts, interesting conversations, and ... process. Universities are never-ending places to learn — in and out of the

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  makes you a lot more attractive to graduate institutions -- and, once you ... in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications, and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013