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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application. Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  've practiced yet, or when the interview was. I started to get little bunches in ... pleased with how I did and was really, really nervous to get the decisions ... how to approach a problem and get childishly giddy when I figure it out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... form characters and worlds and stories in my head that have yet to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT ... communities in different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... isn't like me. Not like me in the sense that had we gone to the same ... , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  'll have to turn in several blank answers because you don't have time to get ... assignments" that you get in high school. Big differences between psets and ... )...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as ... lecture, and with my exceptional ability to get lost in any and all circumstances, I figured wandering around in order to get a better shot was

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to ... life-long endeavor and that it's cool to go back to school! In future

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... things that you'd like to include in your application, but that don't fit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... involved with permitting MIT students to stay in their dorms when Harvard is ... has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... Ok, so you know how Chris is always talking about free food? Well, I seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  not to get skin cancer. I got to prance around in my new polka ... 't know jack, so it's pretty pointless to try to get them working in labs ... home in the summer heat listening to that song, unless you happen to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  like salads as they hand out coupons to passersby. (If I ever get the ... , I was fixing for a crepe late last week and strolled in to Sebastians ... I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  . While you may get more authentic Chinese food in Chinatown Teriyaki House ... , while I frequent the latter, getting to the former is more of a luxury ... fries and you flag down a waitress to get your anticipatory doggie bag

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

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  hours each week in office hours helping students get familiar with the ... plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... . In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and ... to get the creative juices flowing, and in the real world it's really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in ... methods (of communication theory or control theory, for example) to aid in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a ... fit various classes and how best to shape my time at MIT to fulfill ... giving considerable thought to a major in management, with minors in civil

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p ... . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... taste of how much time my classes demanded. I could expect to expend

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013