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• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  , securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible ... Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... to admit qualified women in enough numbers to reflect the applicant

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during

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

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  /maybe/possibly change in the future. With as many exciting majors as MIT offers, I'm not ... with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia ... the weather in lovely Los Angeles, California for around 5 years before

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  could take that starts in the fall and runs through IAP. The labs were ... end of IAP, each team gives a presentation in front of a panel of judges composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  purchased tickets for us in advance and offered them at half the cost. Many ... Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her ... Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority ... juniors who are interested in studying and exploring careers in science ... ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  'll profile a senior each day, each an amazing person in their own right. The ... , for example, while last year 8 students in the entire class accepted offers to work there (last year's most popular employer, if you're curious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  life, the universe, and everything -- my email's still mollieb at mit dot ... try. I love you all, and best wishes in the future!

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  required for entrance to universities in your country. We understand that
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  Technology where she majors in brain and cognitive sciences, with minors in ... Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... in brain and cognitive science, with a minor in literature. She has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the ... Good Place a lot," I'd offer, after some hesitation. And while The Good ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

    Christina T., Me, Erica D., and Jen L. representing MIT in Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  MIT, won the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the ... someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  began. Our hunt was set in ⊥IW, the perpendicular universe version of MIT ... accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power ... the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... increased yield in recent years, while our target class size has remained the same (1,100)."]offered admission to 1,259 students[/annotation] who will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  in the 8.012 section had an exam. Proctor (smiling): "8.012? Are you sure you're in the right place?" Me: ... Proctor: "Is 8.012 even in this building?" Me (bristling): "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this building

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007