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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  cognitive sciences, however very few people offer that as a major and so my ... years per graduate degree? More or Less? And how does MIT feel about ... state school and major in biology. Find a college that is a good match for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  The same day the United States Government furloughed non-essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  had boiled it down to MIT and one other university, also a STEM school ... another university. We were talking about our careers, and she asked me ... undergrad and was to some degree ethically dubious, I would still pursue it. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time ... saved at whatever cost. The fears of State Street and the prejudices of ... Legislature and several meetings have prevented my writing within the past week

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... country and around the world. Now, as a founding member institution of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  fifty states. And, like other institutions rooted in science and ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values ... ourselves in, as an institution and as a country. MIT is profoundly American

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  research UROP at the Koch Institute and taking 2.00B (Toy Product Design), I ... sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... required for entrance to universities in your country. We understand that many grades are not available until after decisions are made and ask that
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  information yet and I wanted to know before I decided." Anon, and everyone else ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs ... 't teach.) Many of MIT's teachers are truly excellent, some are good, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El ... semester across an ocean when MIT already offers the best engineering classes in the world. Plus, more and more summers are being reserved for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  by offering nice dinners, and I was actually looking forward to eating ... Boston University Theatre. The weather is still nice, and nope, I’m still ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Masters degree in Chemical and ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ;bottom-up” approach. Rather than creating a 3-D gel scaffold and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and ... “Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS ... unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an ... one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... . You need a steep temperature gradient (e.g. dry ice and a 400-degree

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  and solid-state physics. Taking 6.004 (computational structures) and 6 ... ’m a course 3 (materials science and engineering) major. Rightfully so, too – I’m taking 3.010 (structure of materials) and 3.019 (symbolic and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... front of my ancient laptop narrowing down my list of unwatched movies and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  secret with my UROPs, my archnemeses, and strangers in the Kavli Institute ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... speaker? FRANK: Yeah, I remember that. And I think there's something about

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  forget everything that's going on, and sometimes you're not even aware of ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other ... ): State Governor's Schools: deadlines & processes vary Awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005