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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 ... confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times ... reported, "IT IS SO TRUE. Love. It. So. Much." Dozens of colleges -
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 -
Blog / Admissions
Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.
Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter ... assistance You meet the criteria set by the College Board as requirements for ... consulting your Guidance Counselor, the College Board website, or other adults -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Blog / Admissions
Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…
, aim high, and earn a degree or a place in college or the military, on ... of their own. And when offered an opportunity to come out of the -
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 -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding heritage at MIT
going to college, they not only bring you what you expected (sometimes ... 't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree -
Blog / Life after MIT
If I ever come back on being away from mit
choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little ... spend another year or two in MIT and get another degree, or should I leave -
Blog / How to Human
When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...
captains of our own destinies, but transitioning into college is a test you ... -epic REX disaster, I’ve decided to offer you people some advice for when your ... ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
College Fair Season
night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... ) degree, including some who enter a 6 year accelerated combined BSAD ... college fairs (one each day through Friday), spend Mothers Day with my -
Blog / About Decisions
Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?
"[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top ... , I fell in love with the city with 135,000 college students and just an -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus, Part 2
are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for ... 'll hear back from US colleges over the next couple of months. kate writes -
Blog / Admissions
What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.
who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very ... a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically -
Blog / Admissions
What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search
of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the ... ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.
a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... discovered CollegeConfidential.com and began showing me people’s ridiculous ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping -
Blog / Admissions
August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.
restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of restaurants, the following offer great veggie (and often vegan) options: Cafe ... to college admissions officers. There is no "right" package of -
Blog / Classes
chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina
extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many ... (join our army), the course administrators offered the option to complete