FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... during the academic year.
If you take the right mix of classes, you can
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Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden
contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I ... distinction, but an important one in understanding the agency of admissions -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…
aren't in the competition; they will be performing purely for our hearing ... sites and predict a winner! I'll think long and hard and make my -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread for Waitlisted Students
This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the -
FAQ / Life and culture
What kind of study abroad programs are available?
Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…
I did the vlog thing! I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory: -
Blog / Challenges
MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.
I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!
For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This -
Blog / Academics & Research
Welcome Back, Kotter year #3 begins.
Here goes year #3 at the Institute. On my plate this term: BE.310: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics BE.370: Quantitative Physiology I ... -Fluids Engineering I 21F.703: Spanish III To be continued... -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Admitted
YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this ... ’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional -
Blog / Hacks
Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"
DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there an MIT Flying Club?
The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates, encourages and facilitates affordable, hands-on experiences in full ... offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly-ins -
Blog / Admissions
Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…
This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...
Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT). The reading and selection period has been intense as ever this year, but I promise as we approach mid-March, I hope to have some more blog updates -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!
photos I did get were cool though. Oh well, you win some, you lose some--though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was ... scavenger hunt! Enjoy the fame and glory that comes with it. P.S. I'm trying -
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Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Admitted Early
IT HAPPENED! YOU GOT IN! Go ahead and say hello :)