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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  process. We don't advise any student what their chances of admission may be and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although ... school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  Lab that I adore and pour a lot of my time and energy into. Recently, a ... 's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give ... , and current research projects that you can check out. I also cheated on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  constant anticipation, the daily races home, and the deep disappointment of a ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... on his mailbox that had some sort of complicated mechanism that I no

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  the pads were on the bottom of the chip and inaccessible from the side ... roads and between houses everywhere and if felt like any of these ... and also play tourist on the weekend in another country, but even the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... our wait list their admission decision. Of the more than 400 students on ... list will close, and we will not be admitting any additional students for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  , he has a huge container of whey on his desk and is Odin incarnate but ... break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  breakfast, starring President Susan Hockfield and Dean of Admissions Marilee ... of campus, and ended up with some great wine glasses at the end. Nice ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... begin to ask the questions and reflect on our use of technology, if we ... on yet my 10th trip on the Mass Pike in a matter of days. And while I

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A naive attempt at a very raw and honest reflection on the past year +/- a few months.  On Living  Back in March of 2020, when all of campus was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... of February and classes began, I wrote a summary about my adventures

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• 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.

  

  group name to “Harvard Class of 2013” and posting “Welcome to Harvard!” on ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  YOU really want. I went to an art and design high school initially on ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and ... certain of my path and purpose. 2. Apply early. There are only benefits to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  that's gone into 3+ years of HS and my applications, that a B+ or two on ... back on this, it looks like a rant, and I apologize, because I'm mostly ... vast majority of our applicants have great grades and scores. If we

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  murals and the home of a trio of beaten-up, well-loved chairs. The bench ... was any of these things. But things were falling apart, and it didn ... (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... know, like a computer you put on top of a lab table. Revolving doors freak me out, and I really don't like it when people bring more carry-on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  doesn’t seem to happen often, and the freedom of being able to leave your ... [annotation note = "one of my hand brakes does work if you squeeze hard and ... hold a 16-pack of toilet paper under one arm and guide the bike handles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... mine is majoring in architecture in and is planning on going to med ... admissions, and statistics on 2004 pre-meds. This website is really helpful

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life ... can do! For anyone curious about the hike Rachel R. '16 and I went on ... any pictures in the vlog, but here are some that Rachel took of cool

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby ... of med school, and starting to agonize over which one of these to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013