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• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... writing your essays, you don't want to be generic. You have to keep in mind ... was determined to prove that I actually did have a good essay in there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to ... know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? What attribute of your personality are you most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... suite kitchen to get to my room, so I almost always bump into a few suite ... of long and short corridors in a “U-shape” or “double

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  spent long hours in lab to finish our products :) It's a great celebration ... in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  're RFID-enabled rings that you can use to pretty much punch your way into a ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As ... Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... : Get to work Check in with the director. Check in with co ... high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  a few more of my favorite puzzles of yore. But now, I must get back to ... short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  experiences back to Sloan in a follow-up course titled Leadership and ... used to put out a paper publication as well, I'll see if I can get my ... " in "2A"). UROPs in the department will remain open to everyone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... that gives teams of 20 a semester to design and build some product, in my ... with my parents I made in 5th grade, they said they'd get me a harley if

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... launch! Getting 17 people on the same page is not an easy feat, which

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7173.mp4"][/video] Story time: So in order to get back to the ... we left I wanted to get a vid of me snowboarding down so I did like my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  hours tooling for a C on a test, and you should take pride in your ... what you tell them, so it's in YOUR best interest to be honest. Because ... (it's 6. That's it. The answer is 6*), getting in based on a fabrication

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little ... . Submit a piece to Voodoo 15. Participate in the annual Voodoo Telethon 16. Participate in a political demonstation at the State Capitol 17. Subscribe to a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we wanted to. Me in our kitchen in Quebec. It was a really short walk to a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to ... are admits. Earlier today, I was working with a colleague to clean and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT Admissions Facebook page and Michael C.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... stuck on our bikes in a thunderstorm where we took to a revolving door at ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... state in the class), are very underrepresented. For a full look at the ... Google and Yahoo news feeds. If there's an article about you or a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... in Orlando; we'll finish in a month in Chicagoland.  Finally ... ." As for your questions, ask them below in the comments.  I'll

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013