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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Mehta, The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History. This blog post is a summary of the event ... development of higher education in India. After the final five Indian

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... , freshman Me walking across the Harvard Bridge in the dead of winter. More

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... the luxury of being within walking distance of one of the world ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... ) program. This has been one of the best decisions I've made in the past 3 ... would suggest doing your exploration closer to the beginning of your

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study. ... MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early ... admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT education (burritos, roller coasters, and such) from the comfort of their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... Daniel Mirny and Lenny Martinez    Pictured: half of the auditorium

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... . About 75% of the MIT kids who apply to medical school are accepted each

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of this and that. During the year, I keep a box full of scraps of paper

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... me offhand her impressions of the graduate student culture in her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave ... or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of ... , I ran around the perimeter with visions of everybody leaving without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Numbers Looking for Muggle Studies, try any one of the many classes the HASS

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that ... %, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of ... Class Profile For the MIT class of 2014 Gender Male 55% Female 45

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... out their dance party. They are the proud home of the famed Disco Dance ... the link I provided instead of me putting the picture up, because those

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  president of the Plano West Habitat for Humanity chapter, which put together ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006