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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of ... 're considering taking time away from the Institute, or you just don’t know who to
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  be funded for research at some of India's top institutions is quite an ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... telling you aboutThe MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... activist collective out of Latin America. How do we use data and technology ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... use by MISTI - MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  Technology) events, snapping pictures of different installations and checking ... rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of ... We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... nonprofit organization we don't have funding to supply these types of items
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  ="the humanities? at my institute of technology? it's more likely than you think ... Technology Initiatives; they run a lot of different programs from Global ... . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... Brass Rat is that it marries you to the Institute. I loved all of the ... In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  , April 8, presented by members of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts ... Walker, founding director of the Ragon Institute, will host the webinar ... a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... what’s in store for you at the institute (out of many other tastes that ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  technologies. This past summer, two MIT undergraduates gathered a group of 50 co ... 's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... many pictures of myself on this blog recently... but perhaps that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  few hours, woke up, rolled out of bed, splashed my face with cold water ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards the end of the panel, I introduced myself and asked them what they felt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  technological focus of MIT in general). Some of my music minor ... offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... has several residents who were not 18 entering MIT. One of our 2018s is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... center) 2:04 -- I just led everybody through a game of MIT Hangman. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... yourself of society and Vitamin D and disrupting your circadian rhythms, not

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015