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• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... traditional streets of Chengdu... are not statues! ;P Moving on... the real

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• 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 / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... all of New Jersey's high schools in 2008, South ranked 92 out of 316 ... side of town getting everything first. New athletics uniforms, fancy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  start off my first day of my sophomore year with 21G.703, Spanish 3, at 12 ... concept of "firefighting" within businesses, specifically looking at product ... because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  hole of tea.' I think the density doesn't matter, at least topologically ... theory of computation before and pretty much everything is new to me so the ... I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... ?  HASS classes at MIT are challenging and amazing. We have some of the best ... support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... , but fortunately, it's one of those tests that you can take at any point ... ; friday, november 17 my alarm goes off at 7:30 but i actually get out of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  out of the hotel by noon and are taxied over to the new hotel with the ... A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... rest of my academic career at MIT, one memory stands out particularly ... into the New Year, I want to wish all of you the best of luck on your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to ... Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  . At MIT a student's financial aid package consists of a combination of ... observe the following rules: Part ways at the beginning of the program ... DISCLAMER: Again I must inform students that this post is directed at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  vibe, feel, breathe, or make sense of it all. At the end of the day ... . Outside of pure euphoria, it brought up many new questions to me, like "What ... -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... friends stayed to chat and poke at the fire. Ian offered to buy free boba

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... ... I've spent the past four years at [state university] which have been ... portfolio of activities aren't necessarily coherent, many don't help at all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  arrived at the gate! a round of applause broke out since we were now sure ... euros worth of candy, and i intend for this to last me at least an entire ... because of the delays, i would have had to spend another night at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very ... history of Stanford University. There's a lot else but that's a rant for ... classes with the same demographics of people that I would at almost any

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  think I knew the majority of the majors at heart and even if I didn't, you ... first years A lot of people ask me "What's dorm hall food like at MIT?" to ... all my heart and I missed her so much when I was at home. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work ... got excited about the prospect of contributing to a budding program at ... very little of it at the time, but I knew that I would soon have to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007