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• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  in grade 12 does that improve my chances of getting into MIT or some ... the AP 5 or IB 7 credit ? Is that the standard of students that get into ... three pieces of advice. 1. Relax. 2. Submit your application well in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  important is that they can help to build the picture of who you are as a ... Finally seeing the light at the end of the EA tunnel! Here are the ... rest of my application materials are up to par?" I'd recommend

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today ... graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... of choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  . Importing Political Polarization: The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade ... Are you interested in any of: making governments work better ... consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3 the wait is OVER

  

  posted the first episode of Minesweeper Monday, which some have called "the most important piece of media in the 21st century," and which others have ... , January 13, 2025, the entire readership of the MIT Admissions Blogs eagerly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 1, 2026
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... transition this year. Plus some of my classes are “frontloading”, which

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I ... hours of wonderful original content. But before I continue you may be ... their poem to the best of their ability. After they've finished a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  first class. I am going into tomorrow with a sense of comfortability and ... was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON ... always puts super cute pictures of his cute baby son with captions that are related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into ... /people/etc. between entries, almost to the point of being 9 different dorms lumped into ... Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  thrive in and contribute something important to the community of MIT ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  realized that i forgot to add one of my most important summer activities ... *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 / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  hundreds of disposable plastic utensils I'm not throwing into landfills, because of one simple choice. Living an examined life starts with the ... into the mountains, across desert islands, into Stata Cafe, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  one of the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center programs ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  (I tried to place myself into the mindset of a war reporter, covering ... aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008