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• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection ... don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... finished, so it will probably be another week and a half until we start the ... of Chicago. This is a school serious about its academics. Check out the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  where I almost took a sharpie, wrote the responses on my flashy CPW ... of introducing myself and forgetting names I’d just learned a few ... emotionally exhausting whirlwind, but a pleasant one.  Regardless, the question

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it ... lounging in my work office as I finished work. When it came to a close, I felt a bundle of knots in my stomach and I braced myself because it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this semester. A very cool HASS class. It's simply called 'Rhetoric' and we study ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show with new giant robots fighting. Wow, it's been a while! Wow, I've been ... Stars! Okay, now I'm definitely not watching. Unfortunately, even after a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  was a bittersweet moment; I was elated that I’d made it through not just ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a ... about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla, Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  sick of. So when a discussion came up during a house meeting about things ... jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the archives!" Boo hoo. I've read and tagged them all in four days. Don't be a ... moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of ... my inbox, a moment buried four months in the past: hi, what classes

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... a lot of life reflected with each mile that goes by. I am not a ... during my freshman year. Honestly, I was not a great, or even a good

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... /W) collected some Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A ... CMS.614: Critical Internet Studies, a Communication Intensive course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... cold, and the way the sun disappears by four bothers me a lot actually

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo ... not knowing who’s who). It’s pretty funny though, every time we meet a ... stands for Freshman Arts Program – is a weeklong FPOP (freshman pre

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017