Make no mistake, it took a lot of hard work to get to the point where I felt I was likely to pass MIT's tough admission requirements. I knew it was a very technical school, and my math and science game had to be on point. I had to strategize carefully and spend my time effective...
Social and Engineering Systems PhD 5 Yes Minimum V: 157 (150 for nonnative English speakers) Q: 159 AW: 4.0 Unavailable Technology and Policy MS — Yes Recommended V: 90th percentile Q: 90th percentile AW: 90th percentile Unavailable Urban Studies and Planning — Yes Minimum MCP: None PhD...
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When I was fired as a university administrator for trying to catch an embezzler, I decided that I wasn't able to survive on instinct, so I needed some intellectual strategies. Using my education (BS MIT VIII'50, MA PhD Columbia) I invented a science of human behavior. It is on the we...
The Master's thesis is designed as practice for the PhD thesis. PhD-level research is too hard to embark on without preparation. The essential requirement of a Master's thesis is that it literally demonstrate mastery: that you have fully understood the state of the art in your subfield and...
One of the guys I know out here in the US (who has a fancy tech job these days) did his CS undergrad at IIT and then did his Phd in Comp Sci at said ultra-elite private school. Another IIT alum I know is in awe of said grad school. (He didn't get in). I can cha...
One parameter of PhD topic choice is whether to continue working in the same subfield as your Master’s, perhaps extending or building on that work, or to switch to another subfield. Staying in the same field simplifies things and probably will take one to two years off the total time to...