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• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows ... feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap ... share with us through the application process.
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  expected there be maybe 30 or 40 frames. but when I opened the folder I ... hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the way until the day it came out. We (the exact same crew) also created

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on-the ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished ... to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn't exactly ideal. But that's how scheduling works sometimes... the schools call

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with ... and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  , the careers of many others - would not be complete without Wikipedia ... the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and ... hard at work getting the magazine, which is entirely student

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  myself. I try to be nice to myself. And it works, mostly; and the days are ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  , but the disambiguation would be helpful. Lesson to be learned from this ... should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  basically going to be my MIT essays copied into the UC portal and an easy ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the ... before that glorious 12AM EST deadline. I remember the frantic click

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  during the rough spots of the semester, when every second had to be used at ... always have very similar academic interests, and so we've always taken the same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  happened because it gave me the financial privilege to be able to stay in ... , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... "] Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave" - Beaded Reproduction[/caption] A quick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  the text THE WEAK SHALL BE EATEN.  REX felt like CPW from 2019, when I ... protagonists at the edge of a precipice, reviving traditions that may not be the ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  what we’re imagine to be a difficult journey back home to the sea. Then ... TURTLE!!!! AHHHHHH The summer before our freshman year, we were walking with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  Undergraduate Admissions. That roughly translates into being the person with a ... listen closely you should be able to hear the laughter coming from 3-107 at ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009