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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  with discussions of more general topics of science and spirituality ... universe. I'll try to read it before the end of the summer, but feel free to ... As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  of these requirements, but I’ll apply anyways and see what happens ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  their respective universities slaved away we at MIT got up late, ate ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  science, technology, and other areas of scholarship for the betterment of ... Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... a beautiful thing. One of my favorite things that I've done over IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  for the University of Southern California. “I just got worn down ... same standards of reporting and rigor applied everywhere else in the ... surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... nerdy side of things, I also joined the MIT Science Fiction Society at the ... you who read science fiction, will really enjoy. Note the name of the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  ability to apply different processes to a wide variety of parts, so ... wafers must undergo repeated cycles of deposition, patterning, implantation of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What entrepreneurship programs are offered?

  Here are just a few of more than 85 resources dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT: Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Design
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  not universally feasible on campus. In four of the twelve dorms ... around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... magic of Computer Science at a wider scale than I had in the past. My Los ... the Special Olympics with Googlers at the University of Southern

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  Recitation: Friday 11 am Professors: H. Ploegh and T. Orr-Weaver Biology of cells of higher organisms: structure, function, and biosynthesis of ... . Commentary: We watched this video the first day of lecture. Possibly one of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He ... Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... science and engineering within the walls of a dormitory. This great ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014