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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Carnegie Hall?" joke, and we kept giggling about it in the back of the taxi ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector ... 's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  chance so I'm not applying." There's actually a number of problems with ... school who applied to MIT. Two got in. Both of them are xylophone players ... does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  frosh on hall was also building one of these, so over the course of the ... Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  to the gospel of Spotify Premium. Apply to grad school? Jury's still ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... early action, 13% more than last year. We admitted 390 students, or 11% of the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  last fall at the University of Cambridge through CME. (I'd describe ... a lot of other math majors would be (Random). I figured I would have the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  supplemental portfolios may feel especially useful. We offer portfolios of the ... deadline of the cycle to which you are applying. If you’re applying through ... ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Southern ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place ... counselor about the state of admissions. Counselors can RSVP at brownmityale

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  kind of preferential "bump" to students who apply to MIT during Early ... contingencies, regardless of when they apply. However, it is perhaps especially ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  sense of the legal frameworks that govern our country and apply it to an ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... learn more about it, you can read more here. Some of you may feel happy

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my ... : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... engineering research at a nearby university (albeit virtually, because of COVID

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies ... characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I ... joined a group of people from New House 3 (a neighboring living group) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012