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• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  much higher level opponents and had to respec to dex/faith and learn new ... . ... These new steps to enhance MIT’s affordability for students and families ... more resources to make an MIT education as affordable and accessible as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then choose one ... /deferral years) We will then ask you to write us and tell us what you plan to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... ’ve learned to embrace my sort-of-awkward communication style, and now I feel ... cool to people”, but I could never go through with it. Pictures and

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch ... you, talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously ... the process, we grew very attached to you, and not just for what you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  four years trying to think of clever ways to fit "function" and "tensor ... life was to properly fill out your name and your AP Java teacher's name ... early for Rachel to be learning about LIFO and FIFO?) AP classes are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some ... be Gastronomical Engineering, a Course dedicated to making and ... and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  -released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from cover-to-cover while crouching ... – textbooks, books I haven’t yet read but am eager to read, and books I regard ... my handwriting. “Callicles” points to “pleasure” and “Socrates” points

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... International Development Network, a community network developed to promote and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap giants--like, people over 6'6"--hit them over the head, and put them in his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then ... gap/deferral years) We will then ask you to write us and tell us what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  advising group and discuss issues pertaining to your transition to MIT. I ... programs and freshman advising/seminars? When do you choose your classes?" I ... semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus, we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  said, I am definitely going to leave IAP with so much more knowledge and ... between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to ... overshot the :35 that I was going for, and I was too impatient to go back and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  ." So how does this document, well over 200 years old, continue to shape ... politics. In class, Prof. Maier invites students to dissect tracts and treatises written by the early proponents and opponents of the Constitution to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... Spanish got exponentially better, and it inspired me to start taking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... someone speaking to us in English (there isn't much English spoken here) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  to the site, and but the blinding array of colors with which she color ... , and decide to look at her browser history instead; after all, this is ... beginning to droop when you reach 6:30pm - and things begin to get interesting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... have asked me if Unified is hard. And I suppose I have to extend my ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be ... , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his ... thread. But this blog is what it is, and Matt & I have to stay within

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look ... 've learned over and over in the GEL program. It's our instinct to push the ... to explore MIT and to glimpse their futures. Nothing captures that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011