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• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a ... MIT graduate and undergraduate students), labs, and team-based projects
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who ... that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit ... known as BIM, is a way to model structures, in a way that differs from ... knows nothing of space or separation or loads. In BIM, a wall is a wall

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help ... I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant ... , octagenarian professor on paper, but in real life, he's a fun-loving guy with an ... is, unless you aren't looking for flexibility), then you're in luck. If

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a ... [annotation note="this is new in the past couple years -- a student government ... ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... ," which is our tendency to return to a stable level of happiness in spite of ... intrinsic motivation is when you partake in a task because you like it. When I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... still turn out well for you in the end. Who do you admit from the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... peers, and she/he won't get into a good grad program. This is also usually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up ... Ferb is a work of fiction[/caption] Notice anything wrong in this frame ... the base flavours of cream soda should be a major milestone in everyone

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... based If you are an international student and 21 has not yet opened in ... . So, who's in for the movie weekend? Who's excited for the movie?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the Ivies is as fierce as ever, but kids who look beyond the famous ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which ... idea," he whispered back. In 1982, Fink became a founding member of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... conservation in office equipment and lighting, while Leon Glicksman is using a ... is situated in Tribeca, right on the Hudson River. It is pretty

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Our office is not on Twitter (although our bot is), but 89 other offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by ... me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play ... vision-based autonomous robotics class/competition that is in its seventh ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  a free concert and take a break from the whirlwind that is CPW, you ... entry to looking ahead! Here, from your temporarily-a-sellout blogger, is ... to first check it out. MIT seems to be littered with free a cappella

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with ... easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos ... Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I ... . :) Speaking of YouTube, I found this video of someone who put together a short ... you like or dislike. It's based off of the Music Genome Project, where a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009