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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your ... and processed, we will add it to your application as a placeholder until ... school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to mention hundreds more students who weren't admitted to MIT or chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be ... about to fight with a tiger (though sometimes getting through MIT felt ... to get good seats, but we just waltzed right in. A view from my seat

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a ... perfectly positioned to shine through the narrow opening between the heel ... religious or scientific purposes. Image from the BBC. A similar phenomenon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many amazing pictures from last weekend and writing a super-awesome entry about ... is GORGEOUS outside, and I am a sucker for warm weather. Winter is nice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  : A new enhanced portlet will be launching in the next week to 10 days ... Hi folks, First I just wanted to give mad props to the kind folks who ... during a particularly stressful spoke of the admissions cycle. You guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  With all these applications, it's tough to find time to blog. There are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... sheet or a textbook isn't going to help you much, since tests are timed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ice Bear it’s ice bear

  

  Due to popular demand, here’s a guest post from Ice Bear. If you haven’t heard of Ice Bear before, here’s a good introductory video: https ... enjoys companionship. Ice Bear goes to sleep. Ice Bear will wake up again.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... , only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse

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

  back 2 school

  

  an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... dragged two friends to a book talk at the harvard coop, where we learned ... going to classes. my a cappella group recruited three new members. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between ... with many remarkable people from a wide variety of fields, and to be ... -school aged students from around the world converged at Labo for a week to

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th ... around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome, online. Click To Play   Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can ... plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding ... feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page ... , and also completed several assignments equivalent to a normal problem

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... – amounting to ~10 hrs/wk of teaching.   Wait, are you a physics ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or ... , there is a goal, the destination to your journey. There is no winning path

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy ... It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... ago] A few of the numbers they've done tonight: White Flag (Dido

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from ... particularly time-consuming profession, so a young Smyly began to learn tricks ... in the Infinite, as well as a friend to the janitorial staff and the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014