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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  pictures. Here are some headlines:   Thomas DeFrantz and the Dancing Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway ... deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  is a pretty good opportunity when it gets offered, and it’s typically more likely to be offered for larger classes like 191 and 200, since the ... ” (Amphibious Achievement offered the opportunity to be an academic and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  like 12:30-1 and walk around Boston CJ: i have hw CJ: but fuck that CJ ... -down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing ... Boston University, a few stops down the Green Line. They debated asteroid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , based in colleges and universities. If you join the program, you ... . Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, Suffolk, and Salem State all have crosstown ... another university but come to MIT for ROTC) and varsity athletes only have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  immortalized in the history of the Institute, I opened my email and found a post ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  national and personal ideals and the state of the world. However, people here ... [by Mirat Shah '08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in ... while I was away from Cambridge, and so did my friend Matt's (MIT '08

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  some friends who study in my country's universities and it seems a common ... Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  us, and stood around a getting a ring on a peg game on State Street for ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  state of Massachusetts, many via the class which is offered every IAP ... It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  YouTube, many universities utilize social media, and I’ve seen a growing ... -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in our selection committee (just kidding, it’s much less fighting and much

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  seriousness, the public library system is a truly amazing institution, and they ... for me to understand while multitasking and good for my general state of ... Spotify Wrapped came out a little while ago, and Kayode wrote a post

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  Worrying and Love MIT A shocking confession: one time, I almost transferred ... though. And not just because application process is scary. But also because ... loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to study and spread their ideas across the world.   According to Lou, every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  such an engineering-focused institution. But I love Boston. And I loved ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline-obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  . I have more thoughts on trusting institutions and pedagogy, but then I ... secrets of the universe and profound things about life. Previously, I read ... [annotation note="~60% of them were either cancelled and rebooked or delayed

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026