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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  choice?" President Hockfield: "There is a huge amount of choice at MIT, and ... there." "We look at athlete aerodynamics. Instead of athletes using drugs ... prospective freshman from New Hampshire, said she was excited to be at CPW and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50 ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... tours, recitals, and contests. Here are some offerings from over the years
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... , I’ve been working on my Masters of Architecture down the river at ... at MIT. I can’t help the part of me that, whether on a walk with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8 ... "Head of the Charles". Activities line the route. There is a concert at ... charities: the Childrens Hospital of New Orleans and a high school in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  -King's Programme at the University of Cambridge, taking courses in "The Behavioural ... trying new things like paragliding or kayaking! What's one of your goals ... More flavors of an MIT student summer. *    *    * Xiaoyue X. '15

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  first time now[/annotation] because of the new BBC/HBO television ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... thinking about the branching paths we choose to take (or not), or how our new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I ... . By the end of the training regime, I was running 4 miles at the ... improved visibly. I could see it in my heart rate at various parts of the run

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  possible at the beginning of each lecture so "we know what's coming", instead ... /review with a professor and TAs. Most of my "notes" are coming from the at ... New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... interning at was closed for part of the summer, meaning I would have to come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... other recent alums, some of whom I did not know at MIT. We have a semi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  is all just a lie. it’s pointing at all of my other friends that it ... , and singing i’ve talked about fun at length before. one of the common ... imagines a universe when my parents were more accepting of me, and it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we correspond with university students learning English at l'Ecole Polytechnique

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  -hour bus ride to New York, we briefly eat dinner at a Chick-fil-A. I have ... , I watch the transit of Mercury. Or at least, attempt to watch ... couple of volunteers from HMMT head to eat dinner at PJ’s Pancake House. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... conference and of course, answering lots and lots of questions. At the MIT ... other great universities, and I’m very proud to be a part of that legacy.

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• 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 ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

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

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  glimpses of full recovery. Eating New York style pizza in Manhattan without ... , like how losing a number of family members and friends at a young age ... taking 3 math courses at once, in addition to all of the normal 8th grade

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based