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• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  topics: Advice on the college interview (Mitra) Advice on the application ... down! You probably shouldn't tell us if you failed the medical boards, though, Alex.) The admissions staff doesn't have some set list of priority

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... of the burdens of adjustment and culture shock. I've been busy

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  While you wait... For those who are curious about envelope sizes: the defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of ... the Visual Cortex *MIT Undergrad IDs Supersized Stars *Study Reviews

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a ... -year application if you are a Finalist; the QuestBridge application and MIT QuestBridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the email address that you used for your QuestBridge application ... Bridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has stocked up on food stores from the plentiful fall, i too shall go hibernate

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... for food I didn’t even find that good. So, I’ve spent the last five ... i’m good at cooking!"]confident in my skills,[/annotation] with the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st ... ) procrastination 2) I was already feeling stressed with the [annotation note ... submitting in early January (around the deadline lol). I [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... thoughts so enjoy the whirlwind, mates. taking 72 units - downvote :( I ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the graduating seniors, or Hank Green's commencement address, or all the cool things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  Hampshire meant that the experience of old age was far beyond my perception. however, in the past few weeks, I've been confronted with more and more evidence that life is, indeed, inexorable. the weekend before classes started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  The bloggers have spent the last few weeks telling y'all what we did ... . There was an ec-discuss (the general East Campus mailing list notorious ... thought that you guys might like to see the responses and maybe think about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  .org/blogs/entry/finals-away-from-finals'>Sophomore spring</a> or <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href='https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course ... officially registered for 8.01, but took special seminars and the 8.012 final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story ... . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  time to have fun. I promised to write more about the fun stuff I've been ... try all the cool places I live so close to! We've seen a live music show at the Middle East, tasted a cider flight at the Artifact Cider Project

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020 ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018