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• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... England Science Symposium featured oral presentations and posters from students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  love of math and science or an essay that talks about something unique ... answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to expand their analytical and quantitative skills and apply a business ... . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of ... few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America ... from Turner, a fellow resident of my floor Burton 1, and the one who

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  applying to graduate or professional school, CAPD has services and programs that can help. Approximately 44% of graduates go directly to employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  computer science class. This is the one of the only computer science classes ... 6 computer science classes and only two of them were kind to me? Not ... As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles ... some sort of [annotation note="i watched lady bird (2017) a few days

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  french fries. The brothers of Theta Xi saw our excitement and offered to ... . We offered them some of our surplus cake, but they politely declined ... Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  Engineering and Computer Science Over IAP, I'm trying to get out of debt. I ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  . That part really is kind of random and up to God, the universe, whomever ... For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... sort of felt like I just ran into people as I went about my life, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  applied to four colleges that had some variation of a Neuropsychology major ... Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... again a team of drastically more boys than girls.   The first

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of ... work right at the edge of their abilities. But this difficulty is what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Applied Math," "Dido is a sophomore...majoring in Computer Science," and ... Science." "Aeneas is a first-year Ph.D. student in Applied Math. After ... From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more ... , breakfast, and lunch!) Though he's spending his summer thousands of miles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006