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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may ... send you an email in early December asking you how you would like to proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... it to last a second in a department where everyone seems to be premed ... in August or so: I hate physical chemstry. I also don't want to be a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... the former second-best Goldeneye player in the world if it weren't for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  -Lab trip leaders and the community in Miramontes are working on providing a ... sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing ... are working with here in Honduras. Even though we had a bumpy start

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  . That got me thinking. MIT students are in general used to a history of ... Materials A group of seven subjects were used to conduct this experiment. Each ... -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12 ... who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... . And hopefully you'll also find some time in there to explore Boston and

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  forward to having them come in the mail. we have a guest lecturer for 7 ... feels like a sequel in some sense. everyone in cambridge biotech seems to be connected. i run to a quick mid-semester check-in with my advisor

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... ) 2nd West using an internet ordering site to save precious seconds when you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... as a person. It’s odd to feel suddenly placed in the world of adults ... areas of life. To be positive, everything has to be kept in a certain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... to design, write, produce, and then run a game all within two weeks ... , dinosaurs in feudal Japan, a traveling carnival gone horribly wrong, and the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  the first time ever a few weeks ago in seattle, and i went to another ... , but also learning to use a lot of other things like AWS and test ... the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... pleasantly surprised to find NO traffic at all (not even near Manhattan *gasp ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  Tray Authority) got in on the action with a key lime ode to the Green ... . These methods are still used today, in part because they released these technologies without a patent, to better serve public health. As someone who

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... : *reads* The key to making a concise mathematical...blah blah...find the ... , rounds the corner from a hallway orthogonal to the one I'm in and sprints

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... -based advising. is it bad to be in a dorm and not have a chance to reenter the dorm ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  do physics to a problem-solving addict. In 18.02 Multivariable ... algebraic lines (admittedly, in sprawling handwriting). I used to make “silly ... this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  ! ______________________________ On a personal note, I must say that in addition to being super ... Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  it a lot harder to feel in touch with my emotions. Anyway, what have I ... grateful to live in. MIT did a great job of setting me up for success and I ... graduated. I had a weird last semester where I was trying to find myself and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025