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• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you're considered an international applicant if you're not a United States citizen or United States permanent resident (green card holder). Applicants awaiting
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future hypothetical dorm room. First, the website for the Massachusetts Bay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ... measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  .350 - Topics and Methods in 21st Century Journalism 12 units I ... , aka design a robot in an awesome competition class 12 units some HASS ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Renaissance Spain, when white skin was cultivated as ... the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  twelve more. The jewelry will be sold in both Sri Lanka and the United ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  that class this past week. It's a 12 unit class, which means the ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... , from the same website, found within 5 minutes of each other with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , check out their website at www.cassvita.com Pelkins also appears in this ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Care in the United States, HASS-S And, while I'm on this kick, the ... concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... in the same field, a student may extend their concentration into a

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

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  , to buy into this myth that they should always be doing more. In the ... [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in ... to take more than 48 units at least one term in order to graduate in ... unit" in some area other than physics Now, this is ideal for a double

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor ... from universities, research institutes, and industries in Singapore and
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?

  AeroAstro the oldest and most respected university aerospace program in the United States, and it's easy to see why. They have an Interactive Robotics lab, a Human Systems lab, a Space Propulsion lab—and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  ties between the children, their families and communities in the United ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  background in Linux, programming and . . .you know what, just don't buy it. The ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription in your native language. Find a [annotation note="primary care provider ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... good website that I found today MIT-area shopping guide by Spouses and ... dollars in credit card debt, because they were like 'Oh man, look how cool

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006