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• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends ... graduate from MIT and go to work at a Fortune 500 company or a nonprofit, or
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  happened to paint it a hearty violet shade. Still, I like to decorate, so I ... of the dorm. The design is a pretty big downside to Burton ... single.) First step to moving in: the room required a paint job. Getting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... . It was nice to take a moment out of the productivity-maxing of MIT and ... ="119565" /] Anyhow, we returned to the campsite and enjoyed a delicious spaghetti

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a ... times), and instead of whipping out my map, I took that as a chance to ask

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old ... tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a ... mostly we wanted it to tell a story of what our community really loves

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  ’m ready to celebrate right now.” And what a party it was! On my first week ... hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big ... in a circle. We bought balloons, we bought beer and hard lemonade, we

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... days a week to ride Champagne, a 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood that she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have to find Adam and drag him back to his computer -- he got a two-day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of ... pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit ... and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

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

  Selection Day 2

  

  discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... early to tell. After we finish with selection, there's still a lot of ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... to talk to you about college decisions and my own experience. When I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was still at MIT, so the night before “yesterday,” I took a train back to MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy ... management skills of a chimpanzee on rollerblades. But it all comes down to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a ... school has sent a hardcopy transcript, you are still required to submit the ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... a plane to California for the Ivy-Plus conference. This conference

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to ... the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a ... semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007