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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although ... school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the Institute when you're here. You can learn more about
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both of the projects I'm involved with. :) ... 's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston ... the streets of Beacon Hill was nice. During the school year, Winnie and ... places. The Mushroom Store was small and cozy. Half of the space was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good ... host to a wide variety of versions of campus life -- from the typical (intramural sports) to the "only at MIT" (hacks). Check out our list of student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met with government programs (the Agricultural Support Programme) and NGOs

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  and the writing teams. After an hour or so of discussion, each group ... plots that none of the writers saw until it was too late to do anything—and ... '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... Brisson with the support of Jacopo Buongiorno and Gerald Wilson, Bryan will ... (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) are an hour and a half long. Most of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  just a shade above the difficulty level of baking-soda-and ... and live a monastic life of solitude in a single down the hall. Katelyn ... the long and illustrious history of our beloved dorm, a proposal that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to ... , sitting quietly and listening to the loop of news. At some point, I remember ... iMac in the center of the room. We watched as a second plane flew into

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  great examples--and for students as anxious about the outcome of their ... the great style and culture I see at MIT. Did any of you find other ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  sabbatical - to allow me to go and pursue this opportunity. One of the best ... , sometimes you just have to take it. But what, you ask, of the website, and ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  of them (#4 and #6, the only ones they had) and listened to them at the ... Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  with one, and painted a couple of times with another. Since the semester ... -care habits I picked up near the end of January stuck—I'm running and working ... are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... WTBS [now TBS] for his station, and contacted the MIT radio station with an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  -up[/caption]When I walked in, instead of the flowers and greenery I was expecting, I ... their ideas for the dish, and the process of creating it. [caption id ... , not too sweet either. The texture of the cream puff was nice, and the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  after the debate for a reception with hundreds of latkes and hamentashen ... between the fruit-filled cookies known as Hamentashen and the fried potato pancake known as the Latke. Two teams of MIT experts will present their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The ... communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005