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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  focus right now should be on your health, and the health of your community ... admission will not be rescinded on the basis of cancelling an AP exam you had ... final transcripts, and such may be impacted by the pandemic, and we will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the ... with the humanities, working on problem sets about the humanities, going

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  On to the questions... Arvind wrote, "'One more favour please', can I ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when ... the other. As an international applicant, it will be hard in any case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  and nostalgia, and on with the nerdiness. Mike Short '05 (Course 22 ... restaurant on the water's edge and taking countless photographs of the food is ... many photos like this I took. Can you figure out the riddle? On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  someone's gonna talk to me and I can't have that. Interrupt the ... along with my friend, as I rest my head on her shoulder and scream out the ... , every stride. I start to panic and wonder if the person I'm with can sense

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... explorations of the first two volumes, maintaining its emphasis on methods of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  our households that may not be the best for studying and working. We ... my time on the plane mainly just sleeping, checking my [annotation note="And ... Emma had gone out on a run earlier that day and the grocery store was a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , and happens quite often. Usually the reason is that there's something on ... feet were on the ground. Then, I stood in line at Dulles International ... ?) and spent the hour watching time tick on relentlessly, because I REALLY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  being the final plan. And so, I held off on declaring my gap semester and ... even be back by the fall, and that I would need to find alternate housing ... : seniors, and only seniors, would be invited back to campus in the fall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the ... , students are advised and placed in seminars based on the dorms in which they ... advantage of the smaller UAVs is that they can be flight-tested indoors -- it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  ] I went to find Maddie and pitch the idea to her. On Monday morning at ... Maddie and I think that going to the Toy Fair would, in all seriousness, be ... summarize it the best I can. Lief Askeland e-mailed his secretary and told

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  and a source of information as the internment period dragged on. By the ... on the Pacific coast were hoarded up into cattle trains and forcibly ... work on my bio and history research...>_____>) At the end of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  Completed Interview form (in the green interview box on your MyMIT homepage ... Admissions has been deluged with calls and emails from students who ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  sob. I can't remember the last time I cried like that. Alone and on a ... and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... goosebumps returned. Because beauty and kindness can be just as all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  on the team “We Can’t Hear You, You’re On Mute”, a team traditionally ... around ⊥IW. You can see the hunt website and puzzles here: perpendicular ... progress on the puzzles and the rounds we had open at that time. The number

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  you are a QB applicant, along with full name and date of birth on the ... ’t worry! You can read the updates for Early Action at this blog entry ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  [email protected] and they'll be sure the message gets to her, or you can (as ... interests while admitting or is it only the marks on paper and olympiads that ... up for it. I feel like I can definitely do better on the SAT were I to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... 've been working on some projects on the side... Ultimately, though, what I'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  , canned soup, and frozen vegetables are routine. The downside is that the ... , and you've got the perfect date. Fine, you can get the three ... ugliness. Fulfillment proved to be elusive, expensive, and less compelling

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our