FAQ / First-year application
Can I take a gap year?
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FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
MIT’s Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) include 26 fraternities, 10 sororities, and five living groups. With core principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office encourages and… -
FAQ / Academics and research
What’s the Deshpande Center?
researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of breakthrough products and new companies. In turn, those innovations can help -
FAQ / Life and culture
Are the Arts active on campus?
More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and -
Blog / Admissions
LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.
Have you guys all seen this silly thing? Yeah, I thought so. It already has its own Wikipedia page. I made you one. It will describe my life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I -
Blog / Admissions
USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.
world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competitions -- concluded in Merida, Mexico. This year, 513 competitors from 93 ... themselves here). The problems are stated in a straightforward fashion, making -
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Blog / Miscellaneous
Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.
Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April: -
Blog / Classes
first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol
note01 The reason we have to take an entrance exam is because we do not have the prerequisite, which is understandable, but alas :^( meme creds02 These memes were brought… -
FAQ / First-year application
Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?
Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement. -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.
This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess '92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess ... 's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…
I did the vlog thing! I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory: -
Blog / Challenges
MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.
I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!
For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!
Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The -
Blog / Academics & Research
Welcome Back, Kotter year #3 begins.
Here goes year #3 at the Institute. On my plate this term: BE.310: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics BE.370: Quantitative Physiology I ... -Fluids Engineering I 21F.703: Spanish III To be continued... -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Admitted
YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this ... ’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional -
Blog / Hacks
Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"
DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there an MIT Flying Club?
The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates, encourages and facilitates affordable, hands-on experiences in full ... offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly-ins -
Blog / MIT Life
been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures
I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things ... ), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I ... I can't really use my phone for anything other than playing said
