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• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... someone take of us. The Hollis North crew: James (Haverford '11), Gary ... Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50 ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... tours, recitals, and contests. Here are some offerings from over the years
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of course, since Germany lies north of Boston, it was still wicked bright ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  and headed back towards MIT. At the start of our last week on campus ... I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... friend and SEVT member Ben Glass '07 had somewhat of an explanation:   ... : The North American Solar Challenge. The race will begin July 17th in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title ... Olsen: On today's episode, Chris Peterson, Director of Special Projects at ... everybody, but there were other things we could look at. Strength of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  my friends. As a bonus, the keynote speaker was Ryan North, writer of ... River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the ... suggests, the MayFair happens at the beginning of May as a way to herald the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of internationals at my hostel. More churches and panoramic views, but this time, accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  /no record will be a distant memory. At the orchards, three of us wandered ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  writing this over IAP, I've shamelessly put them at the end of this post ... Strategies," which meets from 8-9 AM at the Harvard Science Center. Speaking of ... : "WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" At the lowest point on land in North America, Lake

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  earning his master's degree at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, and he had ... One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  what I would double in—mit only assigns majors at the end of the first ... semester of sophomore year. at the time, computer science seemed like the ... summer 2021 I worked at the Caltech Institute of Quantum Information and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  major, and I was sick at the end of last semester. Michelle G. '18 wrote about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun ... to the committee: "I have spent so much of my time at MIT writing, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  and turf dinners at the houses the first night of rush. Parents, to a ... lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... doubled- I HAVE AT LEAST 8 BOSSES! In honor of my 3rd week on the west

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of ... side of the hill. Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017