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• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... Eugene, reminds me of a Dance Troupe concert (Dance Troupe, by the way, is one of the most popular student groups at MIT, with its concerts always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and ... Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  [annotation note="(realistically, one week)"]two weeks[/annotation] of the ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus ... remind one of the sheer number of unfinished pages they must write within

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... , the writing of which resembles pulling teeth but creates a satisfying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... proportion of people in the population who have the vaccine, each individual

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog ... days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and pineapple soda the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion ... ). One can of course see that from my resume, but the ring has occasionally

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... the 'Food' section of Pinterest lately. Might make the following this ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished exams underneath the melting clocks), there resides a species of creative

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading ... neat (and Emmy-nominated!) series called The Secret Life of Scientists ... version of her research? ...and here's the Mollie-cheerleader origin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... , keep these hints in the back of your mind. If your high school / current ... everything the night before. It saves you a lot of stress, since you won

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design ... ? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  (we cover the equivalent of one week in normal semester schedule every day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... sense of the daily newspaper, the subway announcements, and having 2-hour

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... out from the beginning. Personally, I've gotten a lot out of my

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006