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• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... nerdy (like the kids in the Facebook group "Dorks Who Were On The Facebook ... minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• 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, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Preface from Jebby: In addition to participating in Next Haunt with ... , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... before and were interested in continuing. Additionally, I was able to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  system on the website. You'll be treated in the same way as those students ... biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... they will ever reach MIT nonetheless reach MIT in a reasonable amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  . Now for the good news: MIT has in place its own, pretty generous system ... runs the course and for the most part approximate a final exam in that class. If you take the ASE, the grade you get on the test stands in for a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  Probably the most popular questions asked at any information session are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  website right now. On the off chance that you no longer remember your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... sophomore double majoring in [annotation note="Computer science and ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  "powers" to the appropriate MIT class websites in case you had some interest ... 't even write about everything that happened in excruciating yet charming detail like I usually do in my blog entries; rather, I'll just discuss the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah ... on fire on the way there and I got in a car with a stranger just so I ... that works out for me. This time, I was six minutes late for self check-in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and Cognition," known around MIT as Course 6-9. In this post, I'll describe my ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  through buying coffee and learned how to say basic things in Italian, like ... eventually one in particular caught my eye: Eurovelo 8. It stretches all along ... be a part of in Italy"]MISTI Italy GTL.[/annotation]I was supposed to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  've been sitting in, the [annotation note="in japanese, menma"]bamboo shoots ... person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and thirties. the people in front of me are conversing quizzically about their

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... with friends or with activities I enjoy. In spring of 2013, the questions ... . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014