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• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  role and institution to institution, some common themes emerged. While ... -forward. Institutional decision making, writ large, and our admission selection process are ... better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  universities and medical schools offer biomedical engineering (or bioengineering ... established at the Institute in 29 years. MIT is the first university in the ... Today's tie: blue/gray/slate-colored. I worked with Amy and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 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 ... Science and Engineering Research Science Institute (RSI) Secondary Student ... Science Program (SSP) Young Engineering and Science Scholars (YESS) Math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , follows a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students and one of ... and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... Warriors captured their first district title and reached the state tournament

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer ... . The Koch Institute brings together biologists and chemists along with
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions visit their state reminded me just how personal and significant my ... spring, we traveled to New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and my home state ... institutions outside of their home state.  Planning the 5 stop college fair was a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... an interesting but impractical field from a state university graduating ... when I began. I have a grad degree and a grad rat. But, most importantly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... bounced from home to home in the United States and Europe, as his father ... , Lozada had to work, and later, she started a family. Today, she will see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  stated context.” The solution is given in the form of an instruction, and ... diploma and smiling while my mother took a photo, opening the diploma book when my sister said “show the diploma!” and looking on in horror five

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  school only offers up to AP Calculus AB, and I took that course Junior year ... Computer Science.' Also one of my brother's received a bachelors degree and ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  stadium, Kok-Tobe Mountain, the Sunkar Falcon Station, and the Kazakh State ... than 170 countries that offers accurate, comprehensive, and current ... graduate education and admissions at MIT, as well as American universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  institutes and universities with regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion ... , aimed at interweaving disciplines offered at the Institute with computing ... have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from ... I did was for the Gateway Institute, a program for minority and low ... ; Memory and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Tomorrow, I will fly

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

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  Campus Safety and find out how that institution plans to keep your baby out ... what kinds of clubs are offered. If possible, pick one and attend their ... ? For example, The University of Virginia has a very strict honor code and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... learning style is definitely different at Cambridge and requires a great deal of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because ... (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• 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 ... these two professors have had on our institute in their time here and ... different teaching models across different universities, and, over time, saw

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  The MIT.01 course, Intro to the Institute, has been very exciting to teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses ... understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... institutions of the United States are subject to forces similar to those that are ... of control in all organizations and institutions, industrial, financial

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 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   ... ; Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017