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• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  admissions committee an overview of your academic performance and experience ... letter of recommendation (if available), and a school profile (if available ... -specific SSR form regardless of how they plan to submit your transcript and
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  later, how have I changed? I’ve been trying to sort through some of the ... justice with a speedily-written blog post, but I will try, because as of ... campus in September of 2022, I was a different person in a lot of ways, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  that i took ~15 flights, most of them crossing the Pacific ocean, with ... [annotation note="~60% of them were either cancelled and rebooked or delayed ... , the point is that I seem to be catching some of my bad luck again (my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In ... tongues math gibberish. It’s almost inevitable in this little cauldron of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do– but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe ... , and I have a bunch of weekend trips planned for myself. Two weeks ago, I flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] virtual mug of jasmine oolong tea with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman ... local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  this. And because of it, I've been thinking a lot about what he said. In ... instances of police brutality and just blatant racism being caught on camera ... been incredibly outspoken. A doesn't-take-your-bullshit kind of attitude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most ... hours of sleep, the scenery at Glacier National Park almost brought me to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push ... ="residence exploration, a ton of events during orientation week where frosh explore the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  human being who has dreamt of being an admissions blogger since August ... deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours-of-the-day-apart[/annotation] but rather spending-all-of-IAP-on-opposite-coasts-apart! Here’s what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... ’s, Oculus Rifts, laser cutters, 3D printers, bandsaws, plywood, 1000 yards of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying ... and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge ... are telltale signs - a hint of gold above the treetops, an orange leaf

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... more awesome people that spoke less of academia and were willing to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email…