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• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to ... -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ., "Capability of Modern Technology to Detect Exoplanets Orbiting Black Holes ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied ... at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... Ahhh, yes. I know this time of year. Left and right you have tiny

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  the interactions of science, technology, and society. We now live in a ... One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  that on long days like this one, offers a wisp of fresh air. A place that ... hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  the National Institutes of Health doing PCR and analyzing paternities in ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility ... have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I'm splitting my time between Service Design/Performance and Technology Services, so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow-colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  fonts."]display fonts[/annotation] of the Technology Review and the Media ... of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very ... sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... alumnae-turned-astronomers at various institutions. I e-mailed all of them ... Institute. I presented my poster on the first day of the conference. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program ... the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our ... that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.