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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... foundation for study in your major. In your second semester, you might add subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  inside of the building in an effort to preserve the years of artwork ... Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was one of my favorite things to pass. I often thought about how long that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until ... take another  semester to see how we’re feeling about this dilemma ... trying to expand our definition of “productivity.” Whereas in previous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... (N), of successful free throws she has made in her first N attempts of the season. Early in the season, S(N) was less than 80% of N, but by the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to ... as long as the telethon lasts, to answer questions in the comments, and ... calling new students and chatting with them about MIT. I've participated in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode ... universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  . We recommend you check now to make sure you can log in smoothly! If ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... [email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  forward to it. I begrudgingly took Advances in Computer Vision [6 ... year, but I would like to create things that won't get me sued by the Ivy ... I didn't pre-register for it, I was nervous that I wasn't going to get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the ... screen. So many people dropped in to view the show, students and faculty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , she going to Vienna and Budapest, me spending 5 more days in Italy and 2 ... back to spend some more time in Rome and the Vatican, headed to Florence ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures ... birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT alright, and we plan to show you more of that in the coming months, so stay ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... asked him, please, to tell me how to be a writer, the good kind, a serious ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working ... bridge and design different structural options. She also learned how to use ... sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT ... requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008