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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire ... and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  recommendation, but if your application didn’t include a math/science teacher ... MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math/science teacher and a humanities/social science/language teacher. We accept Quest
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  the US. Addis Ababa doesn’t have a lot of tools and parts readily or ... tinkering just because you don’t have a lot of resources. “I’d really like a ... sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don't ... This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  Cena a Las Seis (photo from last year's post, This Isn't Goodbye)   ... Family Weekend was a lot of fun. I can't wait for the next one. Left side ... I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy ... idea and a fun play! Enjoy! PS: If you haven't read The Great Gatsby yet ... While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me. Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  ). I took the occasional break to have a hot drink inside. I'm being ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  hockey jersey, I swell with pride. It's a great design for a uniform (I'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my ... glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  or Terrascope. Haven't written a Guild game yet. Never played an ... professors, including Nobel Laureate Philip Sharp (I didn't take a class from ... resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• 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 ...  complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay too. For right now, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John Cusack's character, Craig, after being unable to find work as a puppeteer tries to find work as a filing assistant. He had a grueling job interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT ... alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even ... were curious, ozonolysis is actually a lot more straightforward than the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  -zero integers a, b, and c. Well, it just ain't so. I mean, if the cold hard facts ... without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the ... . 2. Charlotte noted, A short note to all- having a safe campus doesn't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  might want to be thinking about: If you haven't yet done so, set up a My ... (3514) as a recipient of the scores. If you haven't yet given your ... , submitting your Part 1 now isn't a bad idea...] As the year draws to a close

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of ... : Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin ... -income Pre-orientation Program']outdoor ropes course[/annotation] Attended a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on ... production process isn't as easy as answering a few disarming questions and ... ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don’t want downtime, this ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really ... automatically patching a Linux kernel without reboots. Jeff Arnold '07, MEng '08

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008