MIT: Bachelor of Science in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science (EAPS)

EAPS undergraduate students explore complex and fascinating natural systems in an academic environment that is both small and friendly. Together with world-class faculty, students delve into a challenging area of study—the interaction of the solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere that create our environment—spanning vast scales of space and time.

Academic Advisor: Professor Samuel Bowring

Thesis Advisor: Laura Meredith 

Terminology:
IAP: Independent Activities Period
EAPS: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
CMS: Comparative Media Studies Department at MIT
REU: Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology
UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program  

Coursework by Academic Year (in reverse chronological order):

Spring 2012:

1. Systems Visualization
2. Philosophy of Love
3. NOVA Online Internship Program
   CMS, Independent Study
4. Undergraduate Thesis, EAPS

Fall 2011:

1. Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean
2. The Film Experience
3. Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry
4. Thesis Preparation, EAPS

Summer 2011:

1. Harvard Forest, Summer Research Program in Ecology

Spring 2011:

1. Global Freshwater Crisis (that’s my artwork on the homepage!)
2. Social Psychology
3. Environmental Chemistry
4. Environmental Chemistry and Biology Lab
5. Genetics

IAP 2011:

1. Science Policy Boot Camp

Fall 2010:

1. Environmental Earth Science
2. Evolution of the Vertebrates, Harvard University
3. Animal Behavior
4. Poetry Workshop
5. Physics II
6. Environmental Seminar, EAPS

Summer 2010:

1. Environmental Intern at HSA Scientists & Engineers
2. UROP: Strontium Isotope Research

Spring 2010:

1. Global Warming Science
2. Geobiology: The History of Life on Earth
3. Introduction to Geology
4. How Culture Works
5. Differential Equations

IAP 2010:

1. Environmental Earth Science Field Course
2. Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, UPOP

Fall 2009:

1. Introduction to Ecology: The Earth System
2. Introduction to Art History
3. Organic Chemistry

Summer 2009:

Spring 2009:

1. Bioethics
2. Exploring Pharmacology
3. Introduction to Biology
4. Multivariable Calculus
5. Physics I

IAP 2009:

1. Introduction to Molecular Biology Lab Techniques

Fall 2008:

1. Mother Nature’s Mean Streak
2. Introduction to Psychology
3. Single Variable Calculus
4. Introduction to Solid State Chemistry