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• FAQ / First-year application

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

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of ... , and there will be ample space in the application to explain any issues
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  Well hey there, folks! Remember me? You know, that one weird kid blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  The MIT homepage has a great spotlight today about the Institute's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the

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

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... documents in record time. As a result, we are already having a great reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... of my time in lab last semester and sophomore year was trying to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever ... want to major in** Eat liquid nitrogen ice cream High-five Tim the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms, decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  them to not be conducive to learning. In order to help teachers, we need ... materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... pedagogy together, there are tractable issues to solve in existing online

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  between classes to get some breakfast. Makes cup of coffee to drink in my ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I ... truly this holds. So 1 and 2 - I biked to this cafe in Central Square

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the ... in New Orleans, from buses to streetcars to the ferry. We biked around ... everywhere in NOLA, from the decadent parade floats that seem to be a year

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... participating in meetings and social gatherings. So now he's been elevated to ... brother, are to participate in and run service projects. But there's more

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  to be scanned in and then submitted; there is no electronic version of ... interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear ... /17, we should know this. Please fill out this form, so we can add a note to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  learning how to pronounce German consonants from an mp3 file. Now I can ... successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  Today, MIT alum Pat Antaki '84 will compete in the Olympics. He will compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... making decisions like what job to work at after college. i think we’d be in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... . However, a closer inspection points to a significant variance present in day-to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice