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• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  . Concourse offers small classes in the math and science GIRs as well as small ... necessary conditions for liberty, the proper role of science, and the ... Concourse is a unique community of first-year students committed to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  : Receive a degree in Physics, because I love Physics. This is a large part of ... journalism or science writing; regardless of what I end up doing in science, I ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  principles of engineering practice in the materials science major.” and of ... Ask MIT students what they like about MIT, and many of them will say ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  , intermittency, and quasiperiodicity. Scaling and universality. Analysis of ... and no science class. Help me pick a science class! Help me seriously ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  reached out for all sorts of reasons—to express concern, offer a monitor ... location of the applied force mathematically relate to the yield point? What variables change if a point load was applied instead of a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  the wide range of resources MIT has to offer. If you're applying to ... Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be Career Week. Events of Libraries Week include: Photos with Tim the Beaver

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... , and Social Science. The report, written in the historical context of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  -international sentiment and are reconsidering their decision to apply to universities in ... at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... institutions rooted in science and engineering, we are proud that, for many of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... "]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do ... 'm preserving this image of a CHILD by embedding it here[/caption] On June 5th

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to ... gallon. The tireless enthusiasm of students is one reason universities ... mature sector of the economy will pose complex challenges, universities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... that work great rather than offering a whole array of less robust

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  tell you that Science Hill isn't far. Back when I was applying to ... passed (along with most of New Haven) on our way to Science Hill: By ... myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  their love of science and technology and their desire to deploy them to ... .  We recognize it's a lot of work for all of you to apply to MIT. We ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  students study science and engineering. This shows a lack of understanding of ... resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of ... issues in perspective. While universities are seeing larger numbers of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... sends an electrical signal to its end which causes little packets of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... read for class All of these things I read for 21W.022, Reading and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015