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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from all backgrounds. We know that while for some students getting into a ... , and Success (OACES) is to champion the success of students who have
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer ... scientists, clinicians and others, to bring fresh perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to advancing the fight against cancer. This multi
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has ... to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... be that anchor for myself. I'm grateful to have been welcomed back to ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Parade, be sure to keep an eye out for The Catalina Foothills High School ... prize for the largest student turn-out goes to Oklahoma School for Science ... ready for the best and brightest that El Paso had to offer. True to form

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  up with. I bought my tickets and headed toward the entrance to wait for ... forced in that moment to reaffirm that choice for myself.  Once I did that ... grateful for the fact that I had figured out how to navigate and enjoy the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a ... want to do later on.   For all these reasons, I'm sticking with ... ? Who knows. But for now, I can afford to spend my energy on impractical

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  to it and i really need to. >< i went to a smash tournament for ... summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but 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 / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  remember coming to MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) and meeting people ... , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social ... they’re both wonderful. We decided to adapt Romeo and Juliet for Twitter ... —“OMG guys, cut it out!”—he’s going to be conspicuously absent for a period of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... if I need it makes me feel secure enough to try for a little longer and ... [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  me right now for making me feel human again. I wasn't expecting it to ... best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even ... hundred emails, checked my itinerary for the trip back to Cambridge, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , which for most, mandates us to take eight humanities classes before we ... to them. The teacher would lecture on a particular theme or event – for ... wanted to take at least one history class every semester for the rest of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following ... , so the report card was just for fun, but the serious question to ask is ... -walked along the Charles to put in some minutes for getfit@mit. I was happy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up ... able to avoid them for so long means that even I belong to that party. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge ... . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008