FAQ / Academics and research
Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?
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FAQ / Academics and research
Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?
supplemented by a variety of community activities, including weekly luncheons -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there a medical facility on campus?
services and medical specialties delivered by highly qualified health care -
FAQ / Life and culture
Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?
Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98, started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
What is Splash?
For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test -
FAQ / First-year application
How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?
Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay
tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... exhibition preview feb 12; by Pedro Gómez-Egaña; at the List Center As part of ... ; by Jesper Juul (game designer + theorist); hosted by the CMS -
Blog / Admissions
Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike
a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of ... , and YouTube, and Wikipedia, and, for that matter, MIT Admissions) by ... startups by imposing intolerably high liability costs that will drive -
Blog / Life after MIT
14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century
-arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... been indoctrinated into the free software movement by my MIT housemates ... 2010s cypherpunk movement, learning to program by contributing open -
Blog / Events
Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere
, even subtly, for better or for worse, by the effects of IHTFP. "Punt" and ... . Recommended Readings '16 - Brass Rat 2016 by Michael C. '16 on Feb 8, 2014 '15 - 2015 Brass Rat by Ana V. '15 on Feb 24, 2013 '14 - High Class Brass by -
Blog / Admissions
The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break
with their lives. Inspired by their successes, we then decided to form an ... Rhapsody,” continuing onto “Demons” by Imagine Dragons, and finally performing “Icarus” by Bastille (the song some lounge critics proclaimed to be -
Blog / Events
This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.
to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... Family Weekend. When my family arrived, they were greeted by some of the ... held by the Latino Cultural Center. It was semi-formal, and we enjoyed a -
Blog / Admissions
When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.
things happen, like when your school is shut down by a hurricane, your home is destroyed by an earthquake, a close relative passes away, or other ... South Asia on Tuesday, 25th October at 7:30pm by lighting a candle in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition
in 2025, followed closely by Veronica at 56,323 minutes, a gap of just ... rest: Petey looped hey now by Kendrick Lamar featuring dody6, but ... worship music with Friend of God by Israel Houghton. Kano kept it wicked -
Blog / Admissions
I’m still reading applications 5 years later...
days by the number of applications read during the Early Action cycle, and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was ... were punctuated by Zoom calls and Slack huddles with colleagues -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students
example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by making something that is difficult (and shouldn't be) easier by partnering ... previously worked on another voter registration app funded by the MIT Sandbox -
Blog / Admissions
Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying
read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my ... help from other Course 6's and 2's to build out the circuitry piece by -
Blog / Admissions
Reaffirming our support for international students
, including (but not limited to) those from the countries affected by the ban ... covered by the ban; others have come from international students from countries not (yet) affected by the ban, but who worry about anti -
Blog / Events
emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you
MIT senior Lilly Chin just won the College Jeopardy championships! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy ... this MIT News article about her win and a great interview, posted by