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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, strangers. A video, a song, and some doodles.

  

  &reg. Please don't hate me! Anyway, I also realized it's been a while since I've posted some doodles and a video (because honestly that last one totally did ... a video! It's your lucky day.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you ... with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters even better, I learned a lot about music (which I wasn't familiar with

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• 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 ... mention hundreds more students who weren't admitted to MIT or chose to enroll elsewhere. For Ben, this was truly more than a job. So please use

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

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus ... video: [AVI (DIVX), 5MB] [Quicktime (MPEG4), 28MB] That's a lot of ... director Michel Gondry was here just prior to CPW, he made it a point to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  live or attend school. Don't be concerned about having a lot of extra ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options
• FAQ / Visit

  How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?

  without a reservation for a session, we will not be able to accommodate you. But don't feel like you have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2012, blogger Chris M. led the winning Pink Team and took a leave from ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... creativity, product design, working within a budget, and gain unifying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... for Admitted Students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for ... area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  you happy?" I couldn't take a picture of all of the answers but some of ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn[annotation note="A goal that was quickly cut short because I got sick :("]by

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  read a newspaper over the past decade. Prof. Jenkins isn't the only MIT ... /she have to die?' saying, 'I don't know, I haven't read the book,' is a bad ... , Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. I don't know what will happen this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each ... allow themselves to drift into nihilism lose their edge it shouldn’t come as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  a park bench. My mom was not convinced. This wasn't summer camp ... explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran ... started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a ... about the halting problem - the idea that a computer can't determine ... .01, and 6.02 in the new curriculum. There are a lot of students that don't

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  MIT isn’t a political campus. Sure, it had its moments during the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  or stereotypes. I also didn't limit my search to a particular set of ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn't ... girl's romp through MIT's male math maze," and as neither a girl nor a mathematician, I wasn't sure exactly how I would relate. I had seen the theater

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009