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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... dinner a few months ago, Bertucci’s was the obvious choice of venue. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  --courtesy of the Wormhole, Stanford is never too far from MIT. From California ... . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... MIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  workforce. The top city, naturally, was San Jose, California, home of Silicon ... National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  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 ... parks and lakes, and lots of friendly neighborhood cats that love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... participating institutions for a set duration. For a list of member institutions
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials

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

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where students have lots of freedom and unique opportunities. Some students will do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with, so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great ... . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• 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 ... . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next

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

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program ... the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our ... that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty