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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... moment, of going to the Institute, and of caring for others. On a day ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -Madison’s offer of acceptance. *** And that’s the bulk of it. That’s why I took a ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... center) 2:04 -- I just led everybody through a game of MIT Hangman. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  . Spelling out "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" takes a while. Nowadays ... of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  of good experiences as a Tech Caller, good calls with good people who ... small subset of the whole—have no qualms about telling us exactly what is ... ’re female?” I took a couple of seconds to respond, and when I did I said

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  convinced I failed my interview, I once almost cofounded half of a club, my ... ’t very anxious about applying because I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt ... colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020