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• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  posting my writing online, and it’s a wonderful feeling when people comment ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... college students to tell a story so vividly and intensely? It was about more

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to introduce yourselves in the comments below to your future friends. And

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98, started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his ... relatives and friends were requesting help with their academics, so he started
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  of light and some basic terms for DSLR usage, as well as learning about ... exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers wow and dazzle them on stage. This year was the first time that I had

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  back on that just to make some money - and I'd be betting that maybe ... competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and ... and eat potato chips in the air conditioning. All you warm-climate kids

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How can I get a course catalog?

  MIT has an online course catalog called the Bulletin that provides details about MIT, the campus, and undergraduate programs, including requirements and course descriptions for majors/minors.
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  had now somehow come out of my computer and invaded the real, physical ... -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  groundbreaking games, interactive online courses, and new applications to real ... scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop new approaches for applied game design and construction. Their mission
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  have compiled online. I've gone through and pulled out a few of my ... likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or ". . . free for the night, what do you want . . . " Things are a little

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... wore the hat you're all wearing this week. I triple-proofread my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  and iPhone/iPad       Image Editing: GIMP A free and ... free alternative to Photoshop and I started using it when my Photoshop ... .       Vector Image Editing: Inkscape Free and open

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  hometown, and yelled and jumped up and down. I never told my mom how I lost ... air since the jockey that had the two hour slot before him was out that week, and he was filling in. So after grabbing a bite to eat at

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only ... with a chronic pain condition.’ Bodies are different, and each condition ... dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October ... Sferza and Professor Carlo Ratti. THe collaboration already brought to Sant ... Dinca, Department of Chemistry, and the “Mechanosynthesis Group”, led by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I ... this semester to convince myself that quantum physics is real. 6.2410 is ... quantum particles and using those properties to engineer sensors that exceed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025