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• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number ... just numbers. If there's a letter in front of your building number, that ... is in the process of building a physics center in the secret ninja

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  school classes, a strong academic foundation in high school both improves ... Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... me. It was the first time that I saw a tiny piece of a glass ceiling

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one ... and a half hours, I used math that I haven't learned fresh since middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... !) The UPOP office is a great resource that teaches career skills and encourages leadership development. Next week I have a personal UPOP meeting in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I ... It's a pretty slow week. Classes ended yesterday, I'll be studying ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  importantly, I was introduced to a group of young adults that I am proud to ... , under tech! MIT is a place where I can play a heated bout of Super Smash ... , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and ... have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they ... data in a million different ways until we had our "AHA" moment the day

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order: Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin ... riverside sunrise (I took a pano that captured the sun and moon!) Learned

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  ?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with ... prefrosh I hope you have a great time during REX and do not hesitate to ask ... tell you stories of what living in McCormick is really like because it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great ... , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... .101: Chinese I site. The groom requested a Red Sox update during the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  instrument. 1. Do you have to be a music major to perform in MIT's ensembles ... Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing ... , private instruction. But all students with a serious interest in music

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  that you have a general spatial understanding of where studio is, here ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam ... 77 Mass. Ave. See the red circle? That’s where my studio is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  fork. Before you say that this is simply a spork, I’d like to politely stop you and interject that it is in fact a “fork with spoon ... ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a Visiting Research Fellow at the time), a group bombed the CIS. Since that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo ... heating device Sproutacus: A machine that allows farmers with smaller

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  So... tomorrow is that fateful day. May 1. Otherwise known as the ... ). Whatever your decision is, please do reply through the online form as soon as ... ... start thinking about an email address soon (look for more in a future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... year. This decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this ... in the end. Take a deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  figured I would try recruitment just in case. Recruitment week is a lot of ... getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ways, I was right, but in a lot, lot, lot more ways, I was wrong about

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023