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• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  my scores for your consideration? No: in fairness to all applicants ... research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning ... to look pretty appealing. And besides, I wanted to keep computing as a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of ... it was very hectic, but I did a stop in Cambridge, UK to meet a friend ... . Developing a better theory for in context learning is also useful to describe

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ...  recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  overheard someone ask "what is your direction right now? or are you in a phase ... , almost everyone i know is in it. you don't have to figure out where you're ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  really being able to just select a class I want to take just like I select ... a couple. My approach to selecting a HASS class is that I want to take a class on material that sounds interesting. Some students like to

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a ... . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  to submit your deadline. If your application is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the ... Application Tracking. It can take 3 weeks for items to appear in Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you put in, so my detachment is on me.     There’s an innocent energy to ... gifts as a way to distinguish the recipient of each gift. Then sometime in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... chance to get settled in. :) By the way, I've discovered that if you read ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... . Actor James Woods came close in 1969 but dropped out a semester before ... Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... . Alright, sure, they did bust out a container of liquid Nitrogen to please ... standing up to leave. There's a lot of academic rigor at MIT. The classes are

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... organizations like: LUChA (La Unión Chicana por Aztlán) MAES (Latinos in ... a Parent Connector and volunteering in campus events as well as

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other ... So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... public case for itself, to prospective students, with a strong message ... intellectual capital toward serving the nation and the world, especially in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 ... summers to date. Computer security is something they touch upon a little bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... to get involved with some new activities and continue some old ones

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016