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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... activities on our What to do in high school page.
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own ... finding motivation and initiative to learn things on my own, which might ... paintbrushes since. Another stupid quirk of mine is being unable to talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  amount of things I want to talk about is so numerous that it would easily ... and a drive to make things better. There is nothing more humbling than ... be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help ... there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  store on the first floor of our dorm), which is pretty much the only place ... river to Boston, which is about 1/4 mile away. And it's pretty tempting to ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get to see any students (apparently a bunch of them had come to my Hartford ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  that a lot of them are going on to bigger and better thing. So when ... pushing to do well on the four finals I will have next week. However, The ... along the lines of applying or choosing a graduate school, med school, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  looking for new talent, so I hope to see you on the stage—or as one of ... —what is going on, who is doing it, and where it's happening. The best way to ... blend together and influence one another. First, there is the love plot of

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  envy. The view, however, is not intended for the weak of stomach, or the faint of heart, or the scared of heights. The Coke is nestled ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT ... regular decision, or should I just leave it as is? If I should, what sort of ... bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  eternal summer you left.   Distance is to learn how to live on your ... thousands of kilometers away is not at all easy. It forces one to mature very ...   Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the ... we needed to go pick up, so on top of having a lot of responsibility ... C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  or two of snow still covered the ground. Our bus pulled up directly to ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  wrong tickets for the Chinatown bus, which we need to have changed mere ... story is... look for a majorly awesome update Tuesday night or thereabouts. On second thought, what am I going to write about? Taking exams? Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on ... ): Disturbia, which appears to be a bad remake of Rear Window. One of the best ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  one huge part of this independence is being able to say, “Hey, MIT, you ... up on work/sleep/fun/etc. Personally, I seized the opportunity to ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... mechanics or string theory, for example). Two of these classes, 18.353J ... 't need tons of background and experience to take a class. As long as you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  one provider to Verizon, which is one of MIT's "preferred providers ... the number of students whose parents went to MIT. Ej wrote, "I plan on ... accepted or what kind of achievements they have made. I want to know how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this ... difficult to please, grades hard, and keeps the class on their toes. When I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  in the bottle on several occasions. Cambridge is more or less the ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009