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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at ... university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... students have until May 1 to decide whether or not to accept our offer of ... point we plan to publish our usual statistics about the first-year class.']offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... the graduate version would definitely be offered, I took the class on Jr

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found itself hacked. Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl More photos can be found here ... bond with Hyrule -- the world they had created. The Goddess Din offered

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  have covered more ground in one science discipline or another, or you may ... institutional offerings.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Simsbury, Connecticut, the final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid ... call an Uber to get to the bus station, and get stuck in traffic. Rush

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the ... and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a ... always loved math is probably working in my favour as well! During ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  I've lived my entire life in Salem, Oregon. I like Oregon, it's clean ... traffic laws. My grandma lives in Vancouver, Washington, about an hour drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  . But it was breathtaking, especially in the early morning with mystical ... -Peruvian fusion. Apparently the eighth best restaurant in the world?? Exhibit B ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  freshman, though I am graduating from a local university later in this year ... actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to ... afternoon, Wednesday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel. We anticipate that in the days to come members of the community will organize additional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... questions asked in the past two blog entries. Any questions from earlier entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  traditional first-year curriculum." The GIRs that are offered in Concourse meet ... different from the rest of the FLCs in that what they offer is less about ... to Terrascope in that their focus isn't GIRs (although they do offer

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  , as well as Teacher's Day in Mexico and South Korea - at 6PM Eastern ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... the time and effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4 ... waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will ... sustainable technologies and solutions for problems in the developing world
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday ... table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 687. These students hail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019