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• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my ... in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in
• FAQ / International applicants

  Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?

  international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... polymers that can kill cancer cells. Berry may not know the exact ingredients in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the ... .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  can describe, in 250 words or fewer, any extenuating circumstances that ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the ... resilient. I snapped out of pondering in a couple of minutes and quickly ... [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in ... blindfolded? Can they go a whole night speaking only in palindromes? These ... "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my ... Portland, and I exited the train in a nervous hurry thinking I was going to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... Street, the North End's main drag, had to be closed to traffic. You can see ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   If you're interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014