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• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  heels of highly charged incidents, from Georgia to New York, that ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... , and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  represented state, as usual, is California (12%). Number 2 is New York at about ... had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this feature — which we developed ... translate to academic success at MIT if you cannot account for testing. Of ... offered at your high school, and there are immense disparities between

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  from the New York Times, so I'm basically a crucial pillar of American ... the announcement of a new iPhone, but then I thought, maybe not everyone ... In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I ... of the University of Notre Dame. Although I've eagerly adopted Boston

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  author of the book is basically a complete jerk (from New York, no surprise ... King's College, even though most of the people at King's didn't even know ... rifles, indiscriminately firing at a bunch of unarmed students for a total

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... lead the Keynote. Messud is famous for her New York Times-bestselling The ... authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  TIMES), and flew to New York, marveling at the fact that I hadn't spent a ... been invited to send two representatives to New York for an all ... some New York Times crossword puzzles together; he was way better than me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  at Santa Clara University. Most of the reason I'm abandoning the east ... talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... , but the proliferation of new bits and bobs available in the past few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Utah are MIT ECs (!). I ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of ... missing a lot of fun stuff back at MIT -- a talk by Steve Wozniak, an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  program, jointly offered by the Departments of Civil and Environmental ... authorized at the April 2022 meeting. Two days ago, at the April meeting this year the MIT faculty authorized another new interdisciplinary major

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  clockwork, having time to study, hang out, and do a ton of activities at the ... brighter and I can see the first rays of the new day. I remember writing in ... , students look at the ivy-covered university down the road and marvel at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... at one of the Harvard libraries (and apparently they’re available to a pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  school at Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the University of ... occurred at Cambridge City Hall, a mile or so north of MIT. The campus ... 's course catalog and looked closely at MIT's offerings and faculty in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... entirely new world underwater. If not for the vast wealth of knowledge offered at the aquarium, then visit for the aesthetics- the dimly lit

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

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... rest of the book series. I glanced briefly at homework but only to tell ... of their community impact projects, allowing 12 new Camp Kesem chapters

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  and universities have reportedly filed amicus briefs in support of the ... finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 ... everyone here, and for the new class perhaps most of all. As I wrote that ... for them. Congratulations to the Class of 2018. May the wind be ever at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  statue, and in October at New York's Alfred Smith dinner he joked: "I was ... Welkowitz of Keene State College in New Hampshire hopefully speculated that ... Margot Mifflin, now a journalism professor in New York, said she saw no

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008