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• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows ... your school, community, or family, and any other information that you
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  the fantastic roller coaster and fort for themselves.  Everything felt ... from the party, enjoy! I even got to go on a ride ... about, including one of the new bloggers! I'm so grateful to be here at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  -foot building of limestone and glass, the largest research building on campus, stands on what must already be one of the brainiest corners in the world ... opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  . Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our ... subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... , as it turns out, was on campus with most (all?) of the MIT 2009 Early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... House, Raul, tried them on. And they loved them! McCormick will be ... also be making his famous Churros on Friday! We have Tosci's (easily the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better ... way to class this morning. (Click on the picture to see the glorious

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used ... to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• 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 / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  " and flew too close to the sun. Next week, I'll pick up my metaphorically ... the dialogue I recorded over this video, and gave an overview of the classes I'm taking this semester (7.06, CMS.300, 21W.758, and 21M.733). On

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  first aid. Or item cards, which can be exchanged before the game for items ... eyes, both of our disc guns drawn and in our laps, fingers on the trigger ... and people kept stealing the radio and on and on, and nobody in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  can be said of when I lost (games 3 and 6) where I lost the lead once ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff ... , and matplotlib) to make the plots."]plots[/annotation] showing me being

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  . Being silly during Next Act's production of Beauty and the Beast, catching ... reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then realized this might be better, and I'd just like to say - it's been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  being. And the road has not always been smooth; I've been faced with ... This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute... the other day I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me ... , and the Media Lab. (You can read more about the mood meter installation

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  will be more reliable (and feature-rich) than the one that most of my ... done on MyMIT. We have hired many of the student editors, and yesterday ... It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  again will be thrown away, and students will be scattering across the ... and wish them only the best in whatever future lies before them. On the ... time on the court spent running around in circles and laughing with my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  enjoy life. There's always something going on in the city and I think it ... , once here in Los Angeles and another time on her final night of the Eras ... Dear Reader, I'm writing this in the Wordpress portal and this is an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make ... yourself. how can i believe that, and at the same time believe that, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023