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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... enrolled in it. (I'd like to casually mention that Old English was offered at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... account will work and much more. But that is just the beginning... Events

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents ... make senior year not fun at all, because it’s a hard class that I’d have

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet up with your ... -campus student employment, and how your online student account will work and much

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... account will work and much more. But that is just the beginning... Events

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... -campus student employment, and how your online student account will work. Executive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -figure-advanced, award-winning book of short stories, Drown—by most accounts the first ... Theater september 12. tix available through harvard book store: http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Pal account to donate for shipping. We can still have awkward conversations ... that everything I'd learned there is absolutely useless unless I go back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to accomplish, and against what odds, and through the accounts of their ... others that I'd found in my alum friends. I didn't just want to work and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... looking for somewhere car-accessible on account of the driving rain. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  was on the guest list and the prefrosh had a non-MIT ID.  Many other ... building needed to pass a "tilt test" with a water bottle at the top of it to ... tilt test, but still lost terribly due to its height.  However, we had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  to this blog post :) (Hence the title) Also, for more on maslab, I'd ... And, for your amusement, a recent test video (that's not my voice, by ... failed a test -- getting a 36 -- with one of the two lowest grades in the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I'd ... experiment that will test whether or not the parts of the brain used for ... will also test to see if presupposition - the use of a definite article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for ... Point presentations, which are in themselves very well done. The first test is Friday ... -seting, studying for tests). The sum C=X+Y+Z gives the total number of "units" each

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  important topic. I'm Not Nemo! wrote, "Here's a question about the "Swim Test". I understand that the swimming test involves swimming 4 lengths of a ... Beginning Swimming substitute for passing the Swim Test? Or would the non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November Scores

  

  To anyone who's been worrying about scores from November tests geting to us in time for EA selection, here's a bit of good news - we got 'em! They'll be loaded into the system tonight. Now stop worrying! ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  must pass a swim test in order to graduate!