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• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs ... I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  I know folks love to see the numbers, so we've updated the Freshman Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012 ... For the MIT class of 2012 Gender Male 54% Female 46% Ethnicity &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• 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 / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... certain MIT students and alumni alike. Vesuvius Party The legend of ... halls of Skullhouse, once during CPW and once during Rush. After the night

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... from the phenomenal performance (profound literary self-criticism of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ). The second floor of the west parallel of East Campus is named Putz ... /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl ... around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... staff (who works in admissions, maybe, or in the Office of Undergraduate ... campus, with the exception of the freshmen who are living in French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General ... going to have to take close to the same large number of units as before ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  , despite being amazingly prepared to bask in the sunshine of the West Coast ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word ... maybe one of those side-of-the-mountain tunnels with walls of dirt, a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  time on fifth west, and am nervously anticipating the thrill of new ... touch, old-school; a bang of thunder on the west horizon, hair and wind ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... . However, all of the assignments were due at the same times and the amount of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  , the right side offers a daily glimpse of the culture and output of MIT ... before.) The page has been well-liked and well-used. But research of ... processing power. ... Over the course of this journey, the creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... Chi Omega. Anyway, the point of this entry was to introduce you to yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you ... MIT '11s? Here's the Class of 2011 Profile: Incoming Freshman Class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... -finals bonfire. Our notes for the semester were the guests of honor. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... myself looking at my peers, feeling the painful sting of mediocrity. My

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting ... of other MIT people) increasingly live on different ends of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017