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• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your ... Baccalaureate, A Levels, French Baccalaureate, or CBSE, which are required for
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  ascending order: 2,3,4,14,17,19. Doing this on a computer would require a 2 ... A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  high or complete aid. So even if you do read as a student with a certain ... ). As a result, over 80% of students have no debt, and those who do are ... package. I'm a student who has to go to a full need college--the cost of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  , innocently doing their job and trying to make the dorm a neater place who ... This is a guest post by Sara M. '24, our lovely dorm VP, who did a better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  life has found a way of tracing back to this. Other things I love doing ... Like most bloggers, as a starry-eyed freshman, I wrote a bio that has not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... gingerly begin packing my last box. Some pictures. A couple of 3D

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of friends and I made our way down to the Revere Beach (a short 15-20 minute

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a lone blogger; perhaps a meat hook swings out of focus as we pan across

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make ... Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem ... students will develop a community among their peers, facilitated by MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on campus as a freshman. While reading these blogs is a great alternative, it ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  I've been putting off writing this entry for a week, because I simply ... the long, introspective part for a later entry, once I've had a chance to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a little bit. I've decided to do a liveblog and chronicle this experience ... YOU'RE A PREFROSH AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU AND I WANT TO

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big ... go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... , I'm reminded of the Cocoa tradition of the Fourth East (a.k.a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  and maybe a little luck, dreams really do come true. And beyond all my ... Last Wednesday, somewhere between a biology test and a chemistry ... remember all the times my professors stayed a few minutes after class to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating ... a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt ... . What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost fan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide ... group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  if you're a lifeguard. Because then all you do is stand there and ... insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  hacks, I'd be doing you a great disservice if I didn't close this entry ... my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He was a Digital Effects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005