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• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... for labor; AmeriCorps offers a living allowance and education funding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  strong match between the applicant and the Institute. Our very open ... The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  fraternities and sororities ( NALFO ). At MIT, like many New England institutions ... , 1989 and encompasses the campuses of MIT, Harvard University, and Tufts ... consists of women from MIT, Harvard University, and Wellesley College

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  of American Universities which sought to prevent and respond to sexual ... -547 Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office (IDHR) - MIT’s central ... -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... (literally and figuratively) change and moved to a full time Sloan (course 15

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... -frosh get their I3 (Interactive Introduction to the Institute) housing DVD and ... Yay, you guys asked me questions! And now, I will try to answer them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• 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 ... , and tilt your head 90 degrees or until sufficiently uncomfortable. See

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... , Harvard's Libraries, and why you should go to either MIT or Harvard. Here ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT ... was my first offer, and it was more money than I’d ever had at any point in my life. I put the offer in my family group chat and everybody was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  supernovae, and discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever ... unveil a Universe that to a large extent is unknown to science. And ... Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... pandemic. the president takes sick leave and no one knows what to do. an ... comprehensive wiki, a huge google drive, and regular "cluedumps", or transition

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  topics; and exploring best practices at other institutions. I plan to ... head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach ... and Media Education,” offers a short human-authored introduction and ... ’s Teaching + Learning Lab will be offering advice and resources as well. Other possible

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... 's best universities better. In 1970, Dean of Institute Relations at MIT ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  were unable to offer admission were also really great students and people ... the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New ... As you know, I've been traveling frequently these days, and the trips

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  proposal of the Biological Engineering Division to offer an S.B. program that will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering ... Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering to be awarded on the

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

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  program, and since then I've realized this is probably the most important information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still ... — I ended up going with a gold and an Ultrium companion, not an easy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  selective universities, for the most part, hasn't changed. And with new ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005