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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  penalized in the application process for disruptions outside of their control ... knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  the same dorm touch, they merge into one! Note: The order of dorms ... hand by the wonderful creators of this game 🥲): Random Hall: 96 windows ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  classes because i genuinely enjoy them, or because of the inertia. what's the point? why am i doing all of this?   https ... whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  above and beyond what we had originally anticipated). We're aware of the ... , most MIT staff are out of the office today and tomorrow for the holiday ... ***EDIT, 12/31/12 1:49PM: Of course, no sooner than I post this, it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record-high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets ... , designed fuel-efficient cars of the future, observed subatomic particles, won

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... students for the Class of 2019, not even Leeroy Jenkins. We have seen all the wonderful updates that many of you have submitted, and appreciate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  of the past ten years (go back and forth with the bracket keys). Mouseover a data point to see the number of undergrads from that state. Now that I've gotten the hang of this (note: I've never really programmed in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  , living group, activity, or current area of work. I think the official ... I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni ... can apply to up to 3 positions in the San Francisco, New York, Los

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... if we couldn't do the dozen other hall traditions because of covid ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever ... , awesomeness in general. So I thought I'd write about some of the more awesome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... other than that of the dried wood pulp from which it had once been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  the "Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time" crap and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs ... beautiful end table off the street myself and I’m still very proud of it), but ... behind a guy with one of said four-foot-tall plants. The plant had bright

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It ... you about just a few of the abundant resources around campus - and is by ... stressed out of your mind?  The deans in this office are good to touch base

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  barrier to entry into the industry in the year of our lord 2019 eating the ... take 24 hours to air dry to my satisfaction out of all the cities i ... previous blog post: the days go by slowly but the weeks speed by. here are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020