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• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  Admissions; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Room 3-108; 77 Massachusetts ... for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , highligthing the hopes, differences, and amazing similarities of the Technology ... Technology students do outside of learning?  In the late 1800s, they still ... One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  up with Bothabo N. University of Pretoria ‘19. He was a Zimbabwean international student at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who then did ... little distance I can manage. I have a fear of appearing too crufty, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students every ... : community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other ... many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT
• 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 / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the ... , some say in ice..." What will be the final destiny of the Universe ... expected - this was a sign that the expansion of the Universe was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  /nano technology. -2.372J Design and Fabrication of MEMS: Introduction to microsystem ... subject as 6.152J): Introduces the theory and technology of micro ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  emerging challenges. Beyond the higher-level idea of bringing technology and ... award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  way the laws of the universe flow out of math equations, I love solving ... , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... classes that I took – those weren’t spur of the moment decisions – but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  - University of Zambia Disacare - wheelchair center IDE - International ... So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other non ... coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  % of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of ... The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive technology (PPAT)! it's a higher level interdisciplinary course 6 class that tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... of transportation-tracking technologies by requiring that cities disclose the existence and locations of such technologies, and consider

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  he has left the university after 1 semester only because of poor ... enrolled at another university in a degree-seeking program, you can only ... Finally seeing the light at the end of the EA tunnel! Here are the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006