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• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  education, and we value the insights and experiences of students returning to ... expect to see the results of required standardized tests, school ... what letters of support to send for review is left up to the individual
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  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 ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just sos ya knows. "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne - This is the kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  good things come to those who wait being greedy on facebook marketplace

  

  When my roommate flew back home after finals at the end of the spring ... said that the last line of every story is that “nothing would ever be the ... steps in, at the cost of my sanity. One of the best parts of UROPing is

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 27, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... instead. (That made a lot of sense.) The reality of it all was I got tired very easily and was running out of time to do the other things that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... sleepless, as I try to keep up with all of the readings and do all of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• 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 ... ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

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

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  proud of the class we've admitted. The predominant feeling, however, is sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful ... it, but I never do. We'll spend the next week preparing all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ? But she continues, and clarifies that she expects the rest of her ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... electricity. I guess the reason that robots are first thought of as human, as ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the stresses that come with MIT. Whatever the case, it's clear each of us has

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  (we cover the equivalent of one week in normal semester schedule every day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... sense of the daily newspaper, the subway announcements, and having 2-hour

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... out from the beginning. Personally, I've gotten a lot out of my

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• 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 ... ’s the next rung to climb, or because they tie their sense of self-worth to the prestige of having a few extra letters behind their name. These are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away before I move away from the East Coast for a while. I saw two Broadway

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I ... To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019