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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

   [email protected]. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get your ... that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your ... If your ability to apply to MIT has been affected by disasters or
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  essays, be a shoulder to lean on, be passionate about something, be curious ... I know is exhausted. So I'm going to talk a little bit about ... Clif bars today. Oops. 5) I got up at 9 today to buy groceries for a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  feel like I need to make sure I like chem before making a major of it ... complain every time I have to walk to lab.) The dining hall serves a ... through a phase of eating ancient grains -- or I tried to, but they take

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of ... [annotation note="a yummy flatbread"]naan,[/annotation] which also happens to be ... demo was my first exposure to computer vision and deep learning, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  -out day, make a train reservation for 6 AM, and then go to 6 flags until ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... simpler now. pika held a zine-making workshop the other night as part of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass ... (who is also coming to Maine) lives in Orange County, so he a) drove us ... Adam makes more than his mom to say that Adam would make more than his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... not go out until April. So, in a sense, I can understand the urge to not ... to be able to make their college decision (I know I needed every last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... ="alignnone" width="652"] A free organ!![/caption] Step 2: Alert the Others Make sure ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks ... drinking your cat might lead to a furry mouth or a scratched face." "'Don ... dangle a string for their cat to play with, Thorndike flexed his cats

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... , which he proceeds to mail to her after doing a little Facebookesque

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  people or unabashedly greet a group of frosh to make them feel more welcome ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... 've got a system. Regardless, this led to me disliking a lot of things as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... . I guess it's also to make us really really really thankful when we sit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a ... path I really wanted to follow. So I switched to course 2A with 15 ... (literally and figuratively) change and moved to a full time Sloan (course 15

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... enthusiasts but applying them to a specific social and environmental goal," he said. "This is one area where we're able to make an impact." You can

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  'll also try to make some more phone calls next Tuesday) Also, admitted ... information to match you with a host & living group. Some living groups are ... Floor. Give us a clue as to what will work best for you. We'll have a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008