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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth ... I found myself incapable of doing anything other than reading, once I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• 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 wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got ... and nothing more or less. it is the epitome of what online university ... for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well ... Brook University Intel Science Talent Search Intel International

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  of Admissions. Such requests are usually granted (indeed, often ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  MIT admits a small number of interesting, talented transfer students ... accept. Students who will have completed at least two terms of study with high academic standing at an accredited college, university, technical
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom. Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... universities really be? This time, that extra perspective is not mine, but that of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... percentage of students who choose to accept our offer of admission. The wait ... decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it ... Cline made the alumni of Stuyvesant currently attending MIT (Stuyvesant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005