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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  – creator of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and veteran of the music technology ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants ... all of the different requirements for so many students and schools. We offer specific advice for educators here. We hope it helps!
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won’t have any impact on your chances of
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  prominent institute of technology found an extremely distant object larger ... So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its ... Kendall Square and beyond with the work of the Koch Institute and it is free ... it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said, as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  around Europe (and milking goats!) Waly N. '24 of New York, and yes it ... , Chinese webnovels, and exclamation points !!! Masha G. '24, of New York ... Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  of working in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, or San Francisco ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ="1000"] proof of life (credits: Arun W. '23; Eric Z., Harvard '23)[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  New York, and I carry that feeling of home with me wherever I may travel ... artists: New York has it all. Living alongside this for most of my life has ... York to be my home, I do still see it as the place of my hometown, of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Harvard Admissions Institute. The first day of NACAC is mostly social. Some ... Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a ... lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  , then, isn’t one of technology: The Indian government has actually ... took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008