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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  of his less prurient works. The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West ... crawls into the anus mirabilis of a wooden horse and then West just wrote ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you ... us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of the West Campus dorms. Suffice it to say, we do pretty awesome stuff

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  degree. So I'm very committed to coming in the fall--MIT has a lot to offer ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. This West ... Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won't have any impact on your chances of admission.
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  in the world, we offer thousands of options through edX, MITx, and OpenCourseWare. ... ), committed to supporting the academic, financial, and personal goals of ... transfer admission. MIT doesn't offer any online degree programs, but if you
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  weather. Coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, the weather out west is as ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... 've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  means of the Internet), I accepted my offer of admission. You already know ... One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break ... student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  as the final song on the soundtrack of my "My Time at MIT" video. As I ... in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college ... school, your first day of the application process begins. Day 1. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  focusing on the sabar drumming tradition of Senegal, West Africa. Study and ... history of the notion of "East" and "West"; the emergence of Islam and the ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  complete revamping of the district's course offerings. Congratulations, Mr ... teachers was recently named New Jersey Teacher of the Year. Here's what the ... Teacher of the Year. The press release provided a bit of a bio: After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  the class of 2012, there has always been one elusive item that confused me: #5: Understand the true meaning of IHTFP. The five letters of ... I would know when I really knew the meaning of this saying. Thinking

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was one of those times where I felt like the Simulation was glitching, except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this ... who don't: the MIT class ring (a.k.a. Brass Rat) is not only one of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  humanities, and only one graduate ball represents the coveted MIT diploma. Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all ... this competition. Bryan and I had the pleasure of spending pretty much

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... you used that as an essay prompt. She's of the compassionate sort. Here ... theme of this next piece from second grade: Behind the Couch I like to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer an online degree?

  MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sake of adding the name of a second subject to their diploma. I'm really ... 't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007