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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... these, though, are MIT. There are so many facets of this school. And there ... ’d become more of what I wanted to be — not my senior year of high school

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  high schools. We offer helpful advice on academics and extracurricular ... We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... effort. as the weeks of this semester have passed, I feel like I've been grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of ... November of that year, we got accepted off school B's lottery, so we ... weeks of being at school B is what sparked our social downfall.  We do

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... hamburger, fries, and a shake. I walked by the Portland Museum of Art and ... As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  cruising through school. Make sure you collect lots of little memories :) ... Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  uncomfortable middle school years, who of my age -- trying desperately to be ... Michael Jackson of my middle school years was what I expected to hear ... For MIT students, we're most often having fun when we're way too busy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Ray meal that consisted of a chicken hamburger topped with chorizo and ... when she ran out of unsweetened bakers' chocolate, so she chopped up some ... lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... I had to stop reading. I feel like that could be some sort of metaphor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on Friday night, after 7.5 hours of traveling (via T, Greyhound, walking, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  Art"), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Cross registration is ... class at Harvard, in the Graduate School of Education (all Harvard graduate schools except for the Business School are open to cross

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  list of various non-school things I do at/not at MIT. Though I have read ... much to the majority of schools I applied to who still invited me to ... schools that required the GRE general test. Luckily for me, a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of ... MIT was the first school that popped up. And they'd never heard of it ... talk with every one of you. Also, the hamburgers.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming ... ), and statistical learning theory (9.520). outside of coursework, i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  example of longform journalism) -- Chris Robichaud, Harvard Kennedy School ... the Harvard Kennedy School) -- Myisha Cherry, Harvard University Dept of ... Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, Universität Hamburg) WGS.151 GENDER, HEALTH

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two ... For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  : 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix 3 boxes of cake batter 3 tubs of icing 4 decorating gels 4 packages of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007