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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... , along with the QB supplement, in place of our first-year application ... ’ve completed all of the MIT requirements. You will not be considered an official
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... "][/annotation], I still really enjoyed the content. The first third of the course was probability, which compared to the latter two thirds of the course, random

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... scattered throughout the crowd, and a few other fun outfits. It was one of ... ="linear algebra"]18.06[/annotation] at the end of the row--or it might've been

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of ... of the glorious unknown. The mystery bag was an opportunity to purchase

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... connoisseur of next week's problem sets. The next morning, my esteemed colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... figured I would make the best out of it. i introduced myself to the head ... stir fry or salad--both of which are offered nightly, so I'm always

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks. It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... the gaps of some of the stuff that I semi-blogged about. As you may ... couple of weeks I set foot on campus, I've been involved with the SAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  "apply" section, which offers a related blog of encouragement from The ... Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the ... will never see the light of day. And this is something that I’m still

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones ... known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... to fly home the day after my last final instead of waiting just one

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  warm weather, and finally, the cost of real estate. I declined an offer ... . :-) Okay, as we leave, we enter a hallway... at the end of which lies a special gem...! These bastions of the late-night stroll conveniently lie

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  This past week was the first week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes ... the history of japan guy, and it is an incredible rabbit hole. cj ... me of the last class of 6.031, when it played while my professor stood

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... of you a well-matched host for the weekend. Like online dating ... ": One part of CPW mythology is the "Weather Machine" -- that somehow, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  towards positions that offered the opportunity to do design work. I finally ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the ... things left to do during the next two weeks. I came in with a list of goals

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008