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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... -degree sauna into a 36-degree river. So, I hope you don't mind me writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  universe that is unpredictable, painful and hostile. But they've all managed ... to see it all unfold before you. Coming from the States, it becomes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  stuff I could have done at a giant local college like The Ohio State University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  universities. One student I met came all the way from Budapest. Throughout ... our fuel. We entered a state of flow where nothing existed but our idea

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  the United States had twenty years ago. We live in a connected global ... , an engineering university with no teachers, class years nor rankings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  our Brown University friends, who were touring startups as part of their entrepreneurship program. We saw the Empire State Building and visited interesting

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  that would, or could, happen at any other university. But after thinking ... . For instance, the United States was built on the principle that the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  from the wait list? For example, if someone from state X or major Y ... ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... from the state of their psets. A hastily penciled, tattered sheet of 70

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  friends in Heidelberg find this idea of "campus life" weird. "University" is ... representative of the United States, so I read an American history book. Then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... be a permanent state, but it wasn't so bad. Sure beat being hosed as an

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X or major Y ... , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X or major Y ... , 2013. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  't-slept-for-31-hours state*: "power out. naptime." *Last night. Was. Not. Fun. But ... universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012