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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official ... transcript while we are waiting for your official transcript to be submitted
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because ... , after which I was arrested for not blogging enough. (If you’re trying to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  last year and the bottom painting was Mariia's gift to Emma for our ... suggested I get an ergonomic keyboard since I code for long periods of time ... move onto campus for the spring, but I'm also excited to be back at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that ... , you get pwnd in the face by Nitrogen. Surviving an explosion can often ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  Starbucks account would pay for everybody to get the extra stars. On Wednesday ... the worst night of the week for me as I struggle to wake up for Monday ... shower for me. Plus, there's a really nice mural that I always got to stare

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... to 18! There is really one more reason I wanted to talk about Splash

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  whenever they do, it's an opportunity for me to venture down to 1E and hang ... interesting way to get to know what kind of person they are. Also... The ... they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping or hang out. I'm doing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert ... (oddly) comforting to note that tuition for international students at ... for a non UK student to attend Cambridge for any less as a regular

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... MIT for others, to provide some insight that a high school student ... what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  goes by so quickly. However, I've felt inspired to maximize my remaining ... . Every day, I've tried to do one nice, unexpected thing for someone. I ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel ... I want to submit this by the deadline, and it feels horrible, and I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where ... ranked #37 in the world for its health system (according to the World ... practices. Finally, we need to combat problems like obesity by examining a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  very similar for both. Let’s go through this diagram, skill by skill ... this, and we didn’t have time to cross reg at MassArt for this.  3D ... schedules. Anyways, we are trying to learn this independently by following

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... ready to live in paradise for a while. As important CPW is for prefrosh trying to figure out where to enroll for college, it's pretty important for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... -tune their speech, but I was expecting to just use it as practice for talking ... other participants trickled in one by one. This was when I realized for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  it was finally cold enough for the ice cream not to have melted by the ... little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike ... protects her right palm from the cruel concrete. On Sunday, she goes to get

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  . People want to research on projects supervised by Nobel Laureates, people ... By Robert Kapaku ‘12 We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the ... 't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us! 1. Hearing

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008