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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... the hole as a result of our EFC, but my entire family has had to make ... spending money on top of the money they were already paying for school. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will ... for the admissions officers, that’s for sure... Of course, in 1918

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... recognition, so that’s where Sarah and Marie learned a lot of the basics of writing prompts and designing this kind of system. The first time they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... skimmed over and thus it makes the process of Rush seem arbitrary and random ... happen each day, and each member of the fraternity try to go out and meet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been ... As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... contact David Elwell, associate dean and director of the International

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  graduation. I haven't graduated yet so I have no direct knowledge of this.) The ... . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... person had the chance to share his or her thoughts. If twelve of the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people ... [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to the meat of this post. MIT is the greatest place I know to study any

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  college classes because of a vague mood disorder. Bad news: The culprit was ... didn’t magically fix everything. In the fall of 2023, I quit my senior management position—the one I thought was the peak of corporate American dreams

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  degree[/annotation] weather. 15. Kill the batteries of your equipment ... -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  brains are somewhat bad at understanding the value of the things we have and exceptionally good at wandering into pools of regret the example ... the instant we went virtual i’d have tried to make different kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  student's essay or some other aspect of the application. The short answer ... differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... idea behind freshman advising seminars is one of the student and advisor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007