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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... almost any form, from how-to sessions, forums, lecture series and films, to ... materials Beekeeping 101 Make it: Pinball Ikebana: The Art of Japanese
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  's a pretty good gig, to be honest. Your application will be read by a ... . This application itself was designed mostly by student bloggers to help ... are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  will also be performances by several dance groups. Added bonus…come to ... service? Want to get involved with these activities at MIT? Then, come to ... Johnson Athletics Center. You will have the opportunity to see almost every

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  equivalents to estimate your eligibility. Eligibility will be assessed by the ... year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds ... non-traditional pathways.  Unfortunately, we are very limited to how
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  to this system by an Interstate Compact. Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... the night, by flashlight, for some reason, after the stragglers have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  intriguing: data sonification of wikipedia edits - by the world according to ... favors no particular "point of view." We are enveloped by sound. It forms a ... everywhere, without ever having to focus. Marshall McLuhan * * * * * for more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  Astley 4. If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai 5. Somebody to Love by Justin ... Virus by Professor Mnookin, for example, or The Field Guide to Science ... opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups - the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  make everything terrible   7. You have to wear gross ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses ... Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... Fest, organized by Madhouse Motors every spring. I’d heard of it from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when ... it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  few projects, so figured I'd make myself useful and answer some questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such ... Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of ... MyMIT backend is so close to artificial intelligence that it decides to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... a Man friend who related to a lot of these points, which makes me ... -mid-late-semester Stress that normally [annotation note="I really need to work on my posture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  ... ...and, after three trials by oven, gained the ability to bake a perfect ... to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely obsolete. Freshman year was intensely characterized by social adjustment and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January ... expenses covered by MIT.