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• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  before I get hosed) after the internship ended. Over the summer, we made a ... working on a robot that could perform manual labor tasks, and I helped her ... movements. Jebby helped with a group designing a smart walker with crash

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... happy. And IAP has come with a fair amount of work, but not nearly enough ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  actually a pretty traumatizing experience. A few weeks ago, I realized at ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is ... be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  excitement replete Looking back now, 'though it hasn't been long It's a marvel ... nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 5.5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek ... you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the artery, but the vein), Mike Short '05 mounted a laptop on his door two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• 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.

  

  than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... 's incoming class*, I started to compile a list of memorable-but-not-necessarily-recommended-eateries around MIT but suffered a minor aneurysm from food nostalgia overload and

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

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  [/annotation] even with recurring episodes of tent.     This is a guide to re-sodding a Kresge of your very own.   Step 1: Get rid of all ... sky over the lawn. The saturated blue sky puts a lot of pressure on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future ... may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  something entirely different from what they write here. It simply adds a bit ... ?" Nope, and nope. If you've designated MIT as a recipient, there is no need ... go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long ... finish off the year by giving you all a full run down of everything that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... ideas), and hang out with friends. so there's a lot going on, but campus still feels a lot more relaxed than it does during the school year. most

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that ... will probably do a few later posts about the details of things like

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it tomorrow. Look, guys, I know I'm doing a biofuels UROP and everything, and I ... 've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... doesn't have any impact on admission decisions. In fact, a large
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world ... simply not a part of our process anymore.   How does this apply to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020