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• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... rising star in economics since her doctoral dissertation- on a new way to analyze how people respond to rising uncertainty- creating a stir on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  entrance to the program the following year (as a senior). So as a senior, you ... freshmen get a flavor for what they might want to study next year), and we ... thing about DUSP is the ability to pursue a joint program of the MCP and a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  —it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you ... a radio show, such as having full access to the entire record library ... you’ll be exposed to! I've discovered quite a few interesting

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 MIT Admissions Statistics Summary statistics from the past year.

  

  By popular demand, below you'll find admissions statistics from this ... summer. I also hope to post an enrolling class profile and more statistics ... ,370 students deferred to regular action 295 deferred applicants admitted during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... . It was nice to take a moment out of the productivity-maxing of MIT and ... ="119565" /] Anyhow, we returned to the campsite and enjoyed a delicious spaghetti

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a ... times), and instead of whipping out my map, I took that as a chance to ask

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  have you work independently, then explain your work to a TA or LA (lab ... actually over a little to the right, so it's moved in the other images. shhh ... committee, UA innovation, spearheaded a student lounge with places to work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... through a third-party service other than the MIT application portal
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... , right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange ... machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be ... myself in math, but I think I now deserve a good night's rest. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I ... favorite poem (“What happens to a dream deferred?”). Then there was College

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your ... section. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay ... . We are happy to accept a midyear/updated transcript from your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move ... to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019