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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  Hopkins, and UMaryland; it felt nice to meet others who cared as much about dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the contest; we did, however, perform the opening number: I'm really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few ... review here, I'd love to hear about it! And if you take some digital photos, send them along to me and I'll post them online. Enjoy, and I look

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  on the newest water slide, Dragon's Den. And I got to run around with a ... worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  acceptance letters, current students are getting ready for spring break, and ... incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to help welcome you to MIT. Starting

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of ... replied, with a laugh, "I actually told him to put that in the speech! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  part of his life. I confess to regarding the phrase “never again ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... adheres." I meant of course to write "two" instead of "four" but was ... ; considering the fact that if you were to kick one of my legs while I was running

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my experience at CPW will be very different than that of a prefrosh, I'm inviting

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2010! By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube".

  

  Effect a line and we'll chat! Tell us your story. I especially want to hear from those not given to post regularly to this (or any MIT blog).

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours ... Center is no more. This past weekend, Subway closed abruptly due to issues ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... exam study days. From my desk at Hayden Library, I watched the snow fall ... when I first got into MIT…when I complained about Boston’s cold winters

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... , and water = the 3 food groups?) They encouraged us to rub and smell the chocolate, but I skipped that step. I did follow orders when it came

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we see words and sentences related to work, money, food, culture, and other

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  , and I couldn't have picked a better place to celebrate my birthday or ... 've made. Shout out to LeaderShape 2012: I miss you guys!! ♥ ... What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012