FAQ / First-year application
Can I defer my enrollment?
encouraged!).
Common reasons for deferment include employment, travel, and ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
Search
Search Results
-
-
Blog / Academics & Research
StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best
-educated engineering or business experts with advanced degrees and significant research ... hackathons like MakeMIT and programming competitions like Battlecode. Or they trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of -
Blog / Academics & Research
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers
universities thought otherwise and calculated unrealistically high expected ... Confidential asking people what happens during Orientation that's useful and not Dorm Rush, and the only answer I got was from Mollie, jokingly saying -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT prefer public school or private school?
MIT receives diverse and interesting applications from students in every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school. We understand that high schools have different offerings and families -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in high schools. We offer helpful advice on academics and extracurricular ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)
effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... of our break, I impulse-bought bus tickets to Penn Station. And so down ... American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the -
Blog / About Decisions
Transfer Decisions Released Today
process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend ... our transfer applicants, and congratulations to those we were able to -
Blog / Academics & Research
What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit
I was going to graduate in any reasonable time, and in which degree ... student with a course 6 degree and a student with a course 21W degree? MIT ... degree, you already have some jobs in mind. And it may not seem that the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide
than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... Institute, or RSI, a summer program for rising high school seniors around the country and the world. They all come to MIT, stay in Simmons hall, and get -
Blog / How to Human
Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse
:1s, and I talk to many other people - interns, the University program ... . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly -
Blog / How to MIT
New Beginnings Roses and Thorns
after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not the best). Things have been looking up since then, and being meticulously organised (both my dorm room and my room back home would probably -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking
universes waiting to be painted, and I just wanted to flood them out of my ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my -
Blog / Admissions
Ups and downs and extras
neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... . The borscht was very, very yummy, and the cherry vareniki (apparently -
Blog / About Decisions
Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…
offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we ... Time) that we will not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we -
Blog / Classes
registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues
Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism. It's... well, it's an institute ... classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites
our solar system, and getting a broad introduction to the universe using ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20. This year, my class sizes are roughly 5, 6, 8, 6, and 25. I'm learning -
Blog / Advice
SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter
prefrosh who were being led to believe that Boston was always 70 degrees and ... upperclassmen friends who freely offered up solid advice and told us about their ... masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable -
Blog / Admissions
Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.
. We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... Hockfield, her daughter Elizabeth, and their golden retriever, Casey, playing -
Blog / Academics & Research
The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*
bachelor's degree in course 6 (EECS) and one in course 15 (management), and ... Georgetown, and is waiting on others. I'm getting two bachelor's degrees -- one ... Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and -
Blog / Life after MIT
Good Luck Jo-Jo!
serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management consultant in the medical technology and pharmaceutical industries. Tonight and