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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study.
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were ... sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... do have any burning questions about MIT, you can always leave them in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was ... bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy ... I'm not sure anybody has mentioned her, so allow me. Everybody, meet

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it not once but TWICE because I was deferred the first time around in ... reading so can't say too much yet, but it deals with hard topics in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... 2005), holidays (in 2004, July 4 was the first holiday I took off ... night in spring 2005), and a lot of times in between. I guess I'm a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... can I do to help my chances? The best thing you can do is simply to stay ... The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... (FUP).  I held in my tears and sadness the entire day, but by the end of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  wrote when I was seven: Seen in Winter Never Summer Oh, he's melting ... marching band in its full 14-member glory. I think in total we have about 20 ... bleachers that MIT can throw at us. One instrumentalist who I forgot to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in ... think?? lol As usual, my thoughts come out as bullet points so in the following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... 'll enjoy the moment. I certainly would were I in your place. Revel in it a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure ... ." In the past five years, I have watched all 429 videos that are ... . This is an incredibly insightful talk. I first watched it in 2002, and

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... 'll be at ISEF 2007 in Albuquerque, I hope to see you there! ... in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I ... Before getting too far into this entry, let me just say that I and all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  hallmates Brian '08, Ilan '08, and Matt '08. This year, I'm a TA. I'm in the ... that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a ... : As you can probably tell, I'm trying to finish up my PE requirement

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of ... anything in particular) it was 8:45am and I decided to make one last break for the bathroom. I was in the last group allowed to use the facilities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  You guessed it, I'm finally: And because there are literally so many ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019