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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  critics of elite admissions processes tend to make their cases at the ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... wealthy family north of $50,000 a year. However, MIT, like most of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors ... picking trip to Honey Pot Hill Orchard. Here’s his photograph of the apples ... looking at pictures of agarose gels for my UROP, doing my 6.042 (Math for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  , we were walking by the moat of the MIT chapel, which is just an empty ... -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  th at 4:30p, I breathed a sigh of relief alongside my study buddies ... few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... distance, you can see a little figure sticking out on top of the hill. That ... lunch, we set out to hike up to the statue. Near the bottom of the hill

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments ... , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor. (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  MISTI is pleased to announce the launch of its eleventh country program, MIT-Chile. With generous support from the Chilean Ministry of ... ,000,000 and one of the world’s highest economic growth rates, Chile is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... . Next stop, Beard Papa's at Faneuil Hall, home of the “world’s best cream ... the North End. Get this….there are shelves after shelves of different

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... hosts a reception at his enormous hilltop mansion, "WestWind." The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... I ensure that I've made the best out of my four years at MIT? Will I ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• 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…

  

  science. As such, American businesses at the forefront of innovation in STEM ... thrive." As the report says, MIT has offered generations of people the ... public understanding of the issues at stake as we see them. As I've often

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  we arrived at the snowy front gate of Camp Cody. I wasn’t expecting ... transported back to summer camp at Camp Lakewood in 5th grade. But instead of ... at least 80% of the people in my cohort. Also, skiing and snow tubing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree ... Hi! At CPW, some students in Macgregor were telling me that a lot of

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

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... write this entry, but I thought you guys deserved at least an update, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  on top of a hill and at night the woods around were spooky and fabulous ... , learn their names. At the end of the semester, there was a quiz on that ... made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015