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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT consider legacy?

  MIT doesn't consider legacy or alumni relations in our admissions process. If you'd like to read more about this policy, check out the blog Just to Be Clear: We Don't Do Legacy.
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants! We understand what a daunting task it is for school counselors to meet all of the different requirements for so many students and schools. We
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I submit a maker portfolio?

  The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that require creative insight, technical skill, and a hands-on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  enjoyed doing nothing stopped enjoying doing nothing felt a bit sad and lost ... remembered the things i liked to do at school remembered the love for games ... we can't go around doing things other people tell us to do for the rest

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which should I do?"* *Why do I need to do 2.005? Kinda need to try to bring up ... your Facebook feed. I usually don't do this, I don't really think my

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda ... that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops! travel!) there are also people who don't do much during iap, and instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  or her a call or write him or her an email. You should do this, not one ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for ... periodically as we do sometimes recruit new ECs through the year who might be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  wanted to do an internship over the summer. I don’t know what, exactly, made me feel like I wanted to do one. I knew that I didn’t want to spend ... from one of them, then I’d strongly consider doing an internship there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly what MIT is like; you need to do something, but it is very hard, but you really need to do it, and so you just do the very hard thing without

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... breaks. Besides, I get to do awesome stuff no one else gets to do, like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  't know what to do other than watch and hope. And I keep thinking "did this ... whatsoever, do not hesitate to call or email anyone in our office. As you may ... searching for ways to help. Do any of you have other ideas to add? Also

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... point. And the point is that you should do things that are fun, even if ... that you're doing for fun. It sounds really silly, but… it's pretty easy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  'll be spending today doing what I'll be doing for the next several months ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we do. But now our Early Action applicants have all applied, and our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... think to myself and really ask myself: What do I like? And what do I want to do? A question my ex-boyfriend used to ask me back when he was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  states where it is illegal to do what at a gas station? 5. What famous 1972 song has the lyric "do, d-do, d-do, do d-do?" We were joined in our ... classes I'm taking... at the same time I do! Do you still believe that I do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... do tomorrow. My lack of focus causes stress, and the stress is in turn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  inconvinient, how do you think? A MacGregor room is eight feet by fifteen feet. I ... dormitories do now. It might not be listed in other places because the wireless ... lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... for the first time in my life and I will be simply doing whatever the world pushes me to do. Despite the fear and the nervousness, I do have a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing ... did not know what to do outside of work once the summer came around. The

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not ... center, and expect to have that backlog into January. Do not send a second copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009