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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... of understanding than do most advanced high school classes. How did ... with a paltry year's worth of non-AP, non-honors high school chemistry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... project like a graphic novel was doable during school. Still, I had time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  this year -- a number of suicides at "famous" schools made the news ... ’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. They are the editors of Mental Health Care in ... Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  business hours access to the shop, but we needed the help of Mike Skuhersky ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  school (elementary/middle school) and high school in Nairobi and was within a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  favorite parts of high school, and robotics is the main reason why I ever got ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... things happen, like when your school is shut down by a hurricane, your home ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of ... the grind since my first year here, of course, and i've talked about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  what does the end of high school mean, for you? the days pass so slow; the months pass so fast

  

  textbooks and the last of your graduation paraphernalia, your high school no ... people every other hour of the school day, then every week through your ... the sound of school fire alarms with them. and perhaps that’s the most

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • June 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  semester (when you have a better idea of what classes are offered when ... our own little world and were mostly ignored by the rest of the school ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  It's spring break here at MIT and I'm busy with thesis work. I want ... . Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82 ... found helpful in high school though was reading through the admissions

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026