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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first ... reasoning...and we read in the history of social progress ample proofs that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... . Take a deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and ... The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... .CPW Farewell: Saturday, 5pm (and probably Battle of the Bands, too). The head of ... . Steven Holl has begun talking, and he's reminding me why I first thought of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  full of light and books in the summer evening--a very scenic location too ... sounds like MIT’s equivalent of the Room of Requirement, and I’ve been ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the ... beginning and you feel that difference. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  applied for the job and after a couple of phone interviews and some ... list of all the campus reps and list them next to their headshots so that ... somebody to just go to town and hack the crap out of this pen. Rip it apart

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  the internship and know the structure of the tables in my project 9 ... first sign of a setback. I try to generally identify the problem as much ... *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  [annotation note="Given the complexity and specificity of each individual ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as ... . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first-year students. Housing differs across campus and we want each student to live where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to the same standard of attentive, empathetic, holistic review, and ... early April. Congratulations to the Class of 2026, and best wishes to all ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with ... meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... understanding MIT. So I fired up the old email client and sent the following email

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which …MIT ... Postscript, Python, C, C++, Haskell, and Java. I have not heard of half of the ... of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... shiver in the dregs of December and qwertily exercise fingers unwarmed by ... Science) and live on Conner 4 of Burton-Conner. Basically, I've got a run-of-the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  at the FireRoad app as I try and fit all of my interests into a ... read my blogs and it was one of the most memorable and craziest moments ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  place is actually still pretty green and pretty. Well, the first picture ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I ... too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first