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• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  ethnic minority in Vietnam. It is beautiful, and there is clean air, a ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  others. In Ramanan's case, the Red Cross is honoring one of its own. She ... to make a dance/drama. The dance can depict epics. It's the first form ... dance was such that she wanted to share it with others. "There are people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... construction and event planning. It is used for such things as the base of a sign ... lines from afar. It's essentially the public-transit equivalent to air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  having made it better than when I arrived. Something I'd like to do is to ... contributing to patriarchal, oft Western beauty standards, and is it really that ... standards? Also, why does it take me an hour to do winged eyeliner? Worry

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  'd already taken. I considered pushing it to the last six weeks of senior ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... wronged me. I took it freshman fall on Pass/No Record, and I passed. The

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a ... , pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it ... to me, it's not about acting. Fundamentally, it's about being ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the ... called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... “This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later!” I told my family as they

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... ). After you draft your essay, give it to a good friend, and ask them if it ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  "] Budapest looks weirdly similar to MIT?[/caption] It was over Zoom, and there ... up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... ask us to all return to the original classroom. It wasn't a strong start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  think one day my coach just announced it to the team. Now, as a captain ... quality vs. quantity when it comes to leadership roles. “Many students feel ... goal of the GEL Program is to develop leaders, not recognize them and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I ... back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the ... students seemed like the kind of people I most wanted to be. As it turned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  scores sent to MIT. Our College Board (SAT I, SAT II and TOEFL) code is ... applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three ... isn't life, and senior year is supposed to be the most enjoyable year of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  describe, the best way to think of it is further back behind the alveolar ... vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017