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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We ... who are willing to take risks, and who will bring something special and ... and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  universities where you can use data to improve admissions processes and student ... this summer, I asked her to help me with one of the most important and ... class, I needed to know their astrological energy so I could best prepare

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  passing snarky notes to each other and thinking about what badasses we were ... everyone else does, or you're the opposite and are convinced that everyone is ... specific classes: want to take the more advanced (and sometimes more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  break, some folks attempted to make actual change. President Reif and the ... , and to allow for students to take an actual break during the four ... student complaints about specific classes, and sent an email out to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... 's very easy for me to say this having already gone through it, and there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  so I would often talk to her about her blogs, and see her post them. It was always an event. Our other roommate, Nora and I would race to ... and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  quickly, and there’s not much time to get to know someone beyond the labels ... month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... residents. These reasons are, I imagine, pretty much the same as anyone else’s--to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  not enough time to have all the lives I wanted.' and I really felt that."]I cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to ... you need time to do so much more than that. When all your time has been

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

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  .NET, and Assembly that I learned since coming to MIT.) Fun!  See? Anyways ... learn, create, and problem-solve in an project-based environment. In ... , images, and video to record it. In total, all video elements must be less

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  added, "MIT also encourages us to think about the future as much as the ... to connect their knowledge of the past with the immediate present and to imagine future directions and applications for our more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  journaling as much as I've wanted, and I've slowly transitioned from writing in ... 't take anything away. I would still want to study biology, and I would still want to do research. These motivations were, and are, entirely my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets ... food and do my work, or I can buy food and... probably still do my work ... (Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences). Just try not to want to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... , but it does keep our attention. And it makes for a good blog entry ... I wait a million years I'm not going to have very much junk." "This

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  forward to telling you all about my fall classes and the sorts of things one ... here. I heard a lot of "I have no clue," "I have no idea," and "I want to ... and department, and arrange an appointment to go pick their brain. Of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  then I found this postcard at some bookshop and knew I had to buy it. A ... to put them all up, and then I thought I might share with you what I ... and a little bit of googling to jog my memory. I hope you enjoy. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not ... . Watson and Crick found her to be a rather disagreeable person, which Watson ... sometimes harsh and sarcastic (and I have to say this allowed yours truly to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... Juan Salvador Acosta. (You guys should write to Matt and tell him to join ... first name is Edward. When I got to MIT, Edmund and I thought it would be

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  , and good places to host MITAdmissions Labs content once it's built. Like ... once you have the chance to use them. And let me know if you have any ... leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018