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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged ... something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... Summer Program – Summer Programs are a great way to make good use of your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  peer-reviewed journals. MIT has a program dedicated to giving you the opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... was on the now defunct MIT ChemECar team. ChemECar is a competition to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually try all the cool places I live so close to! We've seen a live music show ... anyone local wants to know :) It's a bit embarrassing how much cool stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  after 7pm Got stuck in Stuttgart returning back to Zürich because of a ... Learned to cook a traditional Czech meal in Prague Went to my first wine ... , and went to my first bar in the US FALL Started a new series for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch next to a friend i know's been busy recently, napping peacefully, and taking a picture and sending it to him to tease him, reminiscing about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would determine whether it belongs to a language or not. Formally, we will create ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the ... "]current events topics[/annotation] and thirty minutes to prepare a seven ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... community. Thanks to my well-documented genetic inability to win a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a ... students to Mechanical Engineering (ME) through hands-on classes (taught by
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but ... any documents, please ask him/her to sign and date the translation
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity ... challenge was to visit an onsen together, which is basically just a giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  supervisor actually just said to me, "We have a small problem this afternoon ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... become a professional female bodybuilder or something, and she used to do a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three ... to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006