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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not ... applicants, and any test taken before December 31 for Regular Action applicants
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  small breather of vacation time between reading Early and Regular applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and ... lot of seasons between the first two and the more recent ones) 15. Ace

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  gather a glowing ball of clear glass on the end of my pipe and roll the ... thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you. February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  -1.5 hour commute depending on traffic. After getting home and eating food, it ... IS OUR ALL TIME FAVORITE MUSICAL. Based on a 70-page chunk of War and ... 's cover of it and Sara Bareilles cheering him on When He Sees Me Bad Idea

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  negative impact on your chances of admission. ... available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience ... on Thursday night at 7:30 pm Stu Schmill, Dean of Admissions and Donald ... program, and more. Discussion will center on the experiences of the UROP

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm. Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of ... young and naïve freshman away from home for the first time. The feeling of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... that my knee-jerk answer - a couple of years - wasn’t true any more. She ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  of your application in to Admissions on time, and if you happen to have ... your scores? "And Q2...my school wasn't on the list of schools provided. So I clicked on 'I can't find my school' and it produced a code of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  of my ability to go, "Haha, yeah, I like that show," and move on. Being ... , and before long, every single piece of paper I could get my hands on was ... , and on top of it all, Aizawa is so incredibly strong. The first time I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... reason other than we decided on it, and it turned out as one of the most ... of pinball on their pinball machine. I didn't do great though and the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional ... down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  mailing lists have thousands of people on them, someone inevitably does, and ... nice person on the other end of the phone said yes, and we were satisfied ... might be exasperated by, and the person on the other end of the line was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  .03 recitation on Thursday and said, "I am officially Course 16!" The next day ... with undergrads and grad students doing research, and we even went on ... , Dorota, Thom '10, and I went out to eat at Trident on Newbury Street: The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  lot of tears and a lot of late nights and a lot of meeting friends on ... and I felt incredibly stupid because he commented on a piece of my code ... visits and so on. All of that was induced by the stress of this one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... it. And each person might need to set aside different amounts of time, and that doesn't make them better or worse as a person -- but of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  . On the other side of the farmer’s market is the art and vintage wares ... expound on the joys of returning and the trials and tribulations of ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... -caliber pset profiles can be found here and here, but while all of these reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... my window at work and my window at home.) Last September, I started a ... compound, secologanin, to find out whether any of these new substrates react

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008