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• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you ... degree that indicates both fields of concentration. If none of these ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The ... the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by ... Institute and its significance in the world of Science, Art and Engineering ... without a certain comforting character for those of us old enough to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The inspiration for ... , Lesley University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University ... organization offered a snapshot of their own, unique chapters below. For those

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a ... writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  in achieving the educational missions of institutions of higher ... thrive." As the report says, MIT has offered generations of people the ... potential, and have an impact in the world. Yet the Institute is part of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  because of low income. University teachers would even offer students &ldquo ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family ... this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  California Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, University ... measured: lab space, salaries, proportion of funding from the Institute, and ... permeates the Institute.” Of course, the sheer weight of the evidence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of ... Anthony R. '09 A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  , which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... the rest of the world has. Consider our central institution: the blogs ... institution is not only a matter of its R1 designation but a profound statement

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  genetics powerhouse of the Broad Institute, the engineering might of the computer science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the ... the basis of the McGovern Institute. Historically, Hockfield said, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every student's unique learning style, we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that provides students with
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  leadership in all aspects of life - be it social, academic, technological - and ... of the Leadership Training Institute. It was so exciting to be a part ... called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one ... anniversary as an educational institute that has produced the likes of Newton

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  halfway mark of spring semester. I stayed on campus this year, so I had a lot of time to think about all the things that weren’t deemed time ... the habit of sticky-noting my thoughts/reminders on my dorm wall, so I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026