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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  , the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Writing and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  week to get out 14 NEW BROTHERS (note the excitement). Anyhoo, for those

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• 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

  

  My first personal entry, how exciting! For some background info about me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering and Premed (we have a really cool major that lets you combine Mech E

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  fun facts for the price of one)!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  , maturity, and common sense. For those who don't know what happened, someone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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

  are unable, to apply for Early Action, please remember that there is no
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the questions they ask for their assignments. So here's a short collage of some of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  preference is for materials to be submitted via the recommendation form
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  in the (almost) two years since leaving school, the term “infinite corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... now for spending four years having fun instead of preparing for my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for ... passion for architecture and civil engineering to prevent such tragedies ... -reinforced concrete that is also self-healing and passively absorbs greenhouse gases for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I ... 've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first ... options one and two. They accounted for 29.23% of the EA applicants. That

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it was mainly just that MIT is cold. And drizzly.  Which was then followed ... much existential despair for someone who hasn’t even existed for two

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking ... taste extra delicious bc they are *free* for students Asmara Ethiopian ... /gown throughout campus Do something nice for friends and mentors before graduating

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... for) beforehand and followed Dr. Jaegar's instructions in their own ... presentations on Spanish urbanism and Taekwondo, which I'm very excited for. This

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  recent years among our students for more initiatives like this. Here's how ... Program on STS just released their fall lineup of talks and I am hyped for ... 're in the area for any of them and want to drop by!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15 ... :   Admissions Statistics for the Class of 2017 General Freshman ... % Number of different high schools represented: 848 Just For Fun Most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  nevertheless lamentable, understanding of proper production of a Novembeard. For ... inspirational, aspirational goal for others. Consider star Stanford quarterback ... Manning. While I have done so much for Andrew, I ask almost nothing in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... importuned for a word, which was characteristic, as usual. I was urged to speak ... be drawn for the present so as to place them with the seceders. Still

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another ... structure. As for this class...well, I'm sure there was some learning done ... department at MIT is notorious for their (Stuffed) Monkey and a Gun demo, which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010