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• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  just stand in front of the lecture hall and teach. Last semester, a group ... Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  for your service. More information about applying to MIT is available on our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus, which includes a dedicated Office of Student Veterans Success (SVS
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  : "Please offer your advice on the following: I am contemplating applying ... universities, MIT has a quota for the number of international students it can ... applying early action, is there any leniency on the submission of music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  University of Illinois for my participation in Science Olympiad. I put my ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... some anxiety, I'm happy to answer some of your last minute questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  that the average number of schools people are applying to is pushing 15 ... apply if you feel ready and have done a lot of research and know what you ... memories. I don't know about you guys, but I attend a freaking ton of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  ), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1 ... Cambridge before applying, I knew it'd be the perfect environment because of ... class size of any school I applied to. It's definitely nice to be in a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or prehealth major; rather, students can pursue a variety of majors and take
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... prompt for the rest of their life compared to most leading universities ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  university with many more offerings than just science and engineering, and that ... universities (including most of the Ivies) with the way international students ... have to face some of the major issues that many universities encounter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a ... writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of ... at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  have frequented since I had the intention of applying to MIT, I suddenly ... ”, “Harry-Potter-style city”, a world-famous university with 61 Nobel Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our ... that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to ... university. This list can be of great use to all international students who ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  halls of Skullhouse, once during CPW and once during Rush. After the night ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  Halloween, and best of luck to those of you applying EA tomorrow. =)   ... know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. ... that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook ... hall will ever lack, in or out of the kitchen, it's knives. *grin* I ... amount of public food, and there are hall feeds about once a month and hall

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  Universities in Israel and abroad as well as with research labs of industrial ... MISTI's eleven country programs offer internships in every MIT field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011