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• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  won’t be answering questions about financial aid on this post ... applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few ... understand your financial situation more completely, please send a letter

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  program's history, with previous victories occurring in 1971 and 1972. As a ... -America accolades, the most in the program's history. Schannon was a First ... , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... have SAT/ACT scores for a student, we can more confidently assess their preparation; when we don’t, we have to look (even) harder at other factors, such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  -250 words each, depending on the question):  We know you lead a busy ... something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? I can't emphasize this enough: make sure to review

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83 ... . Participation in the ISOs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... ."]hard music problems.[/annotation] Last week, a (non-blogger) friend of mine ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Livebloggin Ring Premiere! Twitter is good for something! (maybe)

  

  Via Twitter!! @ccmillsMIT follow as long as my cellphone battery lasts!

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. ...but I'm not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [joint post] part 1: a jaunt across Europe see Kano's post :)

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-part-1-a-jaunt-across-europe/

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done ... games and jump into industries they don't care about so someone will

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Boring Friday what did you do last friday?

  

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  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Very Doodle Intro Post My first few posts weren't very intro-shaped, so here is a handwritten intro full of…

  

   

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  these documents directly to MIT, a registered Docufide Document recipient ... not gotten back to you, but it has been only a short time since you made contact (say, a week), be patient. By having contacted the EC before the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  Word count: Yes, the word count is enforced. Perhaps a little overly strictly. My understanding is that MyMIT is counting words like won't and ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011