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• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... ), 8 HASS subjects (including at least one in each category of Humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs ... Scholar Programs offer a diverse range of classes in visual arts, sports

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  of metallurgy, you would be the most knowledgable individual at MIT on ... engineering. Brian was nice enough to offer some insight into the process at the ... the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... at MIT. We've been best of friends ever since. Bill P. '19, middle, was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... option. Or at least that's what me and my podmates discovered this past quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard ... all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... counseling at Norfolk Academy, in Virginia, says one of his seniors was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  at MIT. Some of these include: Meal plans 5-star restaurants ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... my floormates and stare at their food until they offer me some, or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  present. I could live in Seattle, even. At the end of 2019, I made my ... resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very ... doubts that I was willing. That decision had stayed alive from at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... yes, you CAN major in art at MIT. Here it has more of a studio art ... So, there are pretty much five schools at MIT. From most popular

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most challenging coursework available to you at your high school, treating both AP
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to ... , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... slow start. Rachel, Elli and I started out the day at a leisurely hour of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , Four years of my life, when everyone at my high school literally forgot I ... that, in a tense situation? On top of that, this was all at MIT (which ... wealthy white people from suburban Colorado, and here at MIT, people see you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees ... through the bottom of the ornament, but if you squint at the dark blue one ... ! :) Here's a photo of the bench you work at while making things; I didn

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... most of the day, at home only to change, shower, eat, sleep.  # I didn ... left Tucson the first time, I wanted to linger. At the start of my road

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021