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• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to ... available. ECs typically use the email address you provided on your ... waived, it will not put you at a disadvantage in the admissions process.
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out ... have a pretty diverse music taste. you're also the type of person who ... .."]Radiohead,[/annotation] no in between. you're the type of person who tends to isolate yourself

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  the moon is a planet or not. me: well, the moon is a satellite of the ... 're an MIT student, and that there are people outside of MIT who ... this. I'm still working on the Ring Premiere entry, but a friend

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  counselor about the state of admissions. Counselors can RSVP at brownmityale ... touring the Mountain West/Pacific Northwest states. Of course, we'll also ... Beginning this coming Sunday, April 26th, MIT will be going on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  Answers to some more of the common questions... ------------------------------------- What's up with the financial aid deadline? All financial aid forms should ... , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a very difficult early action process because of the large numbers of very ... ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... be the single most important part of your application. Most of our ... be considered, you have the rest of the summer to be incredibly

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  UROPs in his lab that he's actually just one of the most hardworking and ... was just thinking, UROP (pronounced "yer op"), is actually one of the ... went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in ... Random Hall. One thing she doesn't mention is that one of the floors in ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  up on the banks of the Charles River. It seems that famed tiger ... Mar 7, 2013 Yesterday, researchers from the MIT - Woods Hole ... . The researchers also discovered this text in an accompanying bottle

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13 ... . Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to the creators) is now all over the web, having been covered, among other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Fun With Photoshop Do you have mad Photoshop skills? Show us.

  

  post, I'll keep you entertained with the following. As you know if you follow Matt's blog, my colleague Joanne's dog Evie is somewhat of an office ... fan. Not only does she love the riveting storylines and character

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... much more than that. “The amount of space between two points” was not

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  things about Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; the T (subway) is cheap and clean ... , Class of 2005, Course 1 (Civil Engineering) Favorite things about MIT: interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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  We don't do a lot of mailing, but you can sign up for our awesome monthly email newsletter that shares what's happening on campus and—if you're applying—provides updates and tips.    
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... interaction reduces the amount of time you have to think yourself into misery. I ... Pi day is almost here, when all the hard work from both applicants

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the ... in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP). Both of ... you can spent 40 hours per week in the lab instead of the 5-12 hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at ... her that I was a chemical engineer. She immediately gave me the names of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  honest, so is the number of RA applicants who are admitted. It's hard to ... committees, and no one person has access to the reason (or set of reasons) why ... characterized by this kind of complexity. My advice would be to send in the FUN

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014