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• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  's more than a job. All you can do is your best. Good luck ... -250 words each, depending on the question):  We know you lead a busy ... Action application. If you take the January test, you must list MIT as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  an interpretive dance. why have a computer when you can perform it ... the last few moments and she did a GREAT job so you can read this and ... is INTENSE 👀 Closing ceremony starts with a mike check. There was only

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  there was a chance you would not get in. But with that attempt, you were ... as a rejection with prolonged pain. What I didn't know is that those 2 ... though you were waiting to see whether MIT would give you a chance. It felt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  nitrogen ice cream would be a close second). There’s only so much you can get ... to be a professional clown? Absolutely not. But now you can say that ... the athletics fair where you can talk with coaches or other student

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A ... the same principle of a resident versus a tourist. If you live in New York, you may have seen all of the tourist attractions once a long time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  circus ring!   Here, you can see a tightrope walker balancing the ... purveyors of engineering spectacle–are no exception. This year, there were a ... , an excellent fit for MIT. There was also a hoop artist And a silk

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  a spoon (there are holes where the tines are), my awesome fork is a ... , considering the amount of work that you have already put in. But there is ... fork. Before you say that this is simply a spork, I’d like to politely

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  the internal workings of) moral weightings. Secondly, there is a ... )There is a moral distinction between killing a person (by collecting their ... insisting that pulling the switch is necessarily a killing action. They can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  before can be used to depict this. Her professor is a heavy-set, pear ... of Niels Bohr is drawn onto a whiteboard in the background, with his ... black or can be some purple-bluey space color, whichever fits best. There

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a ... pressing “play again” rather than “quit.” There is a completely different ... chemistry, which is a mainstream class, there is a stark difference between my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  could become a member of MIT-EMS. I think there is some pressure to ... . (Apparently there is a Facebook group called "Sometimes i just like to lie on ... , I think it’s also important to say that there is absolutely nothing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  registrar database.) d) MIT is piloting a Jabber IM installation, and you can ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http ... a fully-licensed copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can get it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... professional conferences. As you've read, Ben and I have done a couple already ... example, I think a lot of schools abroad don't realize that MIT is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  's not the real reason I'm posting. (Actually, it is, but I figured you ... a concert with some friends tonight, and there's a 5.13 exam on Friday ... this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might ... will become a series — “What a Career Looks Like” — where I can interview ... interdisciplinary field with a lot of different applications. I can give you my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We ... enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  medical test for broken toes and bullet wounds is whether or not you can ... bone floating around in there, which is a little creepy. 8-12 weeks until ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... without a letter. The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  in the title. Over the course of the semester, you write a play that is ... that a writer can receive is “this made me cry.” Art is about ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... . You can hear part of a Random Hall tour in the background As even these ... am (I got into MIT!), I know that there is still a LOT of fun to enjoy

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008