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• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  answer fast from your busy schedule whether MIT accepts extra essays ... a recommendation or secondary school report ... from the same school? 2)Is it true that if I apply to MIT as a major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online "SAT quest," complete with custom practice problems, instructional videos, and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... * MIT offers this super duper cool opportunity to cross-register at 3

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... who wants to go to medical school must make this decision very early on ... schools require that applicants have taken certain classes that they feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a full time job offer and don't get into graduate school. I get neither a ... I've been struggling with the grad school vs. industry conundrum for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... them. sometimes it was because i was busy doing something else. but most ... meetup. promys was this summer camp i went to back in high school, and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  cheer for good measure. After busy days of checking people in, giving ... business cards (pictured below), and watching my friend Rachel R. ’16 swat ... since sophomore year of high school. All voluntary, all just experimenting

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  I bring greetings from "the little redbrick school up the Charles River" -- although my classes are all at the medical school campus, which ... . Grad school has been treating me well. I've been doing mostly the same

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• 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
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance ... ’s been working with minority high school students visiting campus, TA-ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... . But since I’ve been so busy lately, today just happened by chance. I ... ; I wish we had that in high school. Afterward I wanted to sleep but I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my ... my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... average, to various degrees. To understand biological big data, I've been

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  used to build terrific things back in high school - incredibly elegant ... this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  Cady Coleman: She graduated MIT with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry ... Naval Postgraduate School have had more graduates selected for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009