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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... and all business. A beautiful, invincible modern marvel of sorts. Of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign - people talk about schools and GPAs and SAT scores and about equity and ... angry with." These work with varying degrees of success.) I hoped to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I like writing. I like writing about issues at school, like mental ... . Last semester, I was worried about graduating and finishing with a degree in materials science and engineering. Now, I've finished that degree

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in ... , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... semester, and then took classes at the Harvard extension school; Samantha is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  westward, some for grad school and some for work. Andrea M. ‘18 and I got an ... time readers will know that I waffled back and forth about grad school ... a rec letter for grad school. She also told me to not apply, but she

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  Throughout high school we loved drawing, painting, animation, fibers ... high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a purely academic high school. So, we really wanted college to have classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  -250 words each, depending on the question):  We know you lead a busy ... in your community? (This could be one person or many, at school or at ... you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  chest rant-style! Dear Teacher At A Very Prominent School From Which Many ... school will end up in a single reader's pile, especially when the high school sends as many students to MIT as yours does. Therefore, when you use

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in ... with family. I finally got that damn diploma that I shed so many tears

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  consume so many episodes on a 'school day'. the next day, which was the ... '21s got their own celebration, where they could receive "diplomas" in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students have until May 1 to decide whether or not to accept our offer of ... point we plan to publish our usual statistics about the first-year class.']offered ... 50 states, 62 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer calculus, people whose schools didn't offer physics...obviously the people ... challenging classes, and if your school offers the basic sciences, you should be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , March 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School and Sunday, March 6th at Harvard Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted ... of the Harvard Business School and the location of some of the panels

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  female students and administrators from Ivy League schools such as Yale ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must ... teams to science teams to school newspapers to volunteer work

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Institute of Technology, the most normal and infamous school under the MIT ... price of the same amount that MITechnology students pay for their degrees ... : Law school. The Massachusetts Institute of Teenagers: A new pilot

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  what you want to your opinions about what each school has to offer ... heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." 3. Daniel ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... conner...my god, is she a beauty. from b to shining c, burton conner offers ... about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  schools, giving presentations, campus tours, sending brochures and emails...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to ... admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... Person quite yet - jumped straight from undergrad into med school. Now, I ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014