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• Afford / Cost & affordability

  Estimate your cost

  a more in-depth review and to determine Pell eligibility you will need ... divorced or separated, and families who have ownership in a business. Special
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Admissions statistics

   determine our admissions process, but they are the result of our process. In our ... included in the tables below, despite their centrality to our process. The ... numbers. With that in mind, here are some numbers about the people we admit
• Apply / Understanding the process

  First-year class profile

  [/annotation] of the Class of 2028. You may also be interested in this post from our ...  http://iso.mit.edu/about/statistics.shtml. Socioeconomic Status First generation in their family to attend college 20
• Discover / Life and culture

  Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

  computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of ... installations in the Stata Center's ground floor.
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two
• Discover / About MIT

  Basic facts

  note='Source: MIT Facts']Campus[/annotation] 168 acres (0.68 km2) in
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... 'm glad I moved in with my friends, and let them convince me I would love to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  knew how much I would've liked this, I would've joined earlier, or, if I knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the ... mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... the nightmarket in Nanjing. I would often hang out with my older cousin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... 't schedule appointments with me while i was in california. something about ... life story in smooth beats. it felt like i was saying what he wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... year was the length of the posts we would raise. In the past we raised ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  told him how grateful I was. In response, he sent the following meme to ... math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth ... !"]strenuous[/annotation] exercise isn't just how I stay fit: it's how I stay sane. I've found I need

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  possibility. Often, I would walk along the same street, music tucked in my ears ... Tumblr: “We would commiserate with each other about how high school felt ... elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... some of my old entries- like the very first one.  How did I introduce

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014