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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  , Brown University, Colby College, and Columbia University in the City of ... university provides and what these universities look for in applications, so ... universities for them.In addition to the counselor fly-in, STARS@MIT also hosted

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... . The beaver sits on a dam made from eight ivy leaves and a pinecone. In its right hand it holds a diploma that transforms into a telescope

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid ... in studying and exploring careers in science, engineering, and ... Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous academic program which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... principle of enrolling a maximum of one third of our class in EA. Recent changes in the early application policies of some of our peer institutions

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... = around 4 years for competitive. Question: IB diplomas? Colleges are

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  're going to crossreg than actually do, mostly because MIT's offerings in the ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to ... activity 9:54 pm – went to a Salsa Night at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  robotics in nearly every corner of MIT. Here are a few examples ... Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students interested in learning more about robotics on their own.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  -recognition application, EatOn. This program helps drivers choose restaurants by offering ... account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which ... open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question ... hands-on than most other universities - you work in labs, build roller ... universities, campus is more or less open. If you're interested in MIT, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  friends at other universities have to stay in the college they applied to ... hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the autumnal equinox, but an actual BAM! Leaf in face. It was new, and weird, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... unicode block. the most common hindi word in the mediacloud india collection ... hope to bridge gaps, not in knowledge or reason or respect, but in two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges/Universities ... bask in the glow of getting the MIT fat packet. Once that moment is over, get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  scholarship to Syracuse University, until the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's course catalog and looked closely at MIT's offerings and faculty in ... legal. The very first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the USA ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  state in the class), are very underrepresented. For a full look at the ... letting her know she had been accepted to the university renowned for its ... , Christy set her sights on MIT after reading a story in Scientific American

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  issues in perspective. While universities are seeing larger numbers of ... , administrators and parents are all in this together. Victor Schwartz is university ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... deeper into the possible opportunities a program like MISTI could offer. Being a hopeful Course 10Eng-Biomedical and without fluency in any other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject ... offered at your institution to those offered at MIT with the MIT Bulletin