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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  's already been two years since ours! But CPW is honestly just as fun for undergrads here as it is for pre-frosh, so we are all just as hyped as you are ... getting lost looking for events? Instead, get lost in this year’s Next Big

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  bestowed upon ten leading researchers from four different continents for ... could blog it for you. But I digress. Want to know the answers to the ... Chemistry (move over, Schrock) for proving, along with 20 student volunteers

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  lots of emotions for day 1 of my freshman year. Thoughts ran like mad in ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with ... & Caron Wheeler tbh i mostly listen to this one for the sound and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  amount of sleep before my body revolts at me for being off schedule. A ... myself to my room at the end of the hall and proceeded to sleep for 12 ... , but I’ve never tooled through the night without sleeping for a

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now ... paint an imaginary wall for half an hour as she collected data on arm ... questions it made up for him never being around. He seems to be popular around

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

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  eat the lard for the next year." Alright, so it wasn't actually like ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike ... words to REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It", for serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... done with caution during the winter when leaving windows open for a long

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don’t complain; I’ve spared you the…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  activities. Think about what the people you asked for recommendation letters ... your interviewer might say about what you’re like in person. For each ... be filled in with your essays. For each quality, especially sparse ones

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... also taught me how to use the necessary tools), the spacers for the caster, and the aluminum mounts for the optical encoders (the little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... ."]REST[/annotation]. I know for sure I am taking [annotation note="Oral Communication"]6 ... papers from the original literature. Topics include basic technologies for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• 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 / Testing

  What are the MIT test codes?

  MIT's code for SAT is 3514 MIT's code for ACT is 1858 MIT's code for TOEFL is D021
• Blog / About Decisions

  OMG OMG OMG! TODAY'S THE DAY DAY DAY!

  

  In case you forget when decisions come out: For Some: For Others: And Then Some:

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2010
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT require standardized tests for transfer applicants?

  We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants. Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details.
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory?

  The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is some #Content for you: last November, Loren S. '17 and I were interviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... enroll elsewhere. For Ben, this was truly more than a job. So please use the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008