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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... opened its doors in 1865. Since then, more than 12,000 officers have been commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to MIT can open a lot of doors when it comes to summer internships ... my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  across the room, a team from Hong Kong and a team from the United Arab ... same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  his community. There is a also girl from Hong Kong whose face lights up ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  : ??? Uh oh. Visions of watching your friends receive their diplomas while ... You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  Hong Kong Ruby for lunch sometime along the way. Monday -- Buckle up with ... formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  openness to talent, and a long tradition of national service — I believe ... of their own. And when offered an opportunity to come out of the ... rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• 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 ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  Boston Museum of Fine Art opens its doors to the public for free (although ... identify their school and degree (red means PhD, or doctorate of philosophy ... .05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  in the middle are Lebanon and Hong Kong. They have a pretty complicated ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  included: A comparison of The Departed and the Hong Kong film that ... different mediums offer different experiences A study in the rise of zombie ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of ... staffers why, having gotten a degree from such a prestigious university, they ... admissions staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  wealth culture in China and Hong Kong vs. Singapore, and since I’d known a ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  teaching throughout Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China with the CETI ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  grandma used to own. Batman was from a happy meal, maybe from Hong Kong but ... the opening of MIT Nano, a blue elephant from a company at career fair ... University of Michigan, with the group that uses and produces signac, a data

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... development of media applications within the Humanities. The HyperStudio is open ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 99 degrees is 99 degrees. End of ... ) "Dry heat" huh... You know what? 108 degrees is 108 degrees. End of ... Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include: that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016