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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  high schools. We offer helpful advice on academics and extracurricular ... We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of ... November of that year, we got accepted off school B's lottery, so we ... weeks of being at school B is what sparked our social downfall.  We do

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... effort. as the weeks of this semester have passed, I feel like I've been grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... people to dress up as the cast of Hey Arnold! or The Magic School Bus for ... varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  experiencing them. I mildly detested my last couple years of high school during ... the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... killed on his bike in elementary school, the restriction of personal

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... community events, students learn about all types of design and related fields ... part of DesignPlus, and it’s had a big impact on our MIT experiences so

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  ’t heard of the famous 2.00b Toy Design, I refer you here and here and here ... write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  going with it, regardless of the details. MyMIT was never designed to be ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  of them, I couldn't very well design my own experiments. Although I wasn't in charge of experimental design for this project, it's not like ... even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  justifiably proud. We stuck labels on everything to describe some of our design ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  , everything must be designed so that the driver can jump out of the car in five ... Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull 4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  interview at School C. This obviously creates a cohesive little community of ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never ... I know I just wrote an entry about grad school interviews, but my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  software designer for computer network communication systems -- and one of ... know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of ... streamlined design of the tip to minimize drag, the payload inside the nose and ... stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  's Department of Architecture is the oldest school of architecture is the United ... Science in Art & Design (BSAD). Approximately 85% of MIT architecture undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there been a program like Design Squad - a new reality design competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007