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• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you who are somehow not obsessed with econometrics, I should note that we ... not only carved in "athena%" but also included a cursor. Well, in case

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can you mail me materials internationally?

  Due to increasing mail costs and in an effort to be environmentally-conscious, we no longer mail materials internationally, and we do very limited mailing within the U.S. You may however,…
• FAQ / Afford

  What is need-blind admissions?

  MIT's need-blind admissions process ensures that you will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of your financial need. Our admissions process is need-blind for all students, foreign and domestic.
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  run? will the bugs take over? has their two days of work been worth it ... majority had not attended a hackathon before, and a general track. this didn ... jumping robot![/annotation] As [annotation note="not sure if i'd say this

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  documents. Do not worry/call/email if something is not showing up yet on your ... admission to be a worry.  If you have submitted your EA Part 1 but not yet your Part 2, you can still do so.  If you have not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  experience, and not some MIT-sanctioned, carefully crafted spin. Thank you for ... "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not ... votes to admit the applicants who are admitted, not to reject the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that we have not processed it. We will not look at your ... up with your Educational Counselor. If we have not processed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  , before I could stop myself. "Really? Why?" he asks. "I mean, it's not ... could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well-written at all. I was not lying when I told this man what I thought. Take this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  or her a call or write him or her an email. You should do this, not one ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for ... waived and you are not planning on visiting campus, you can check the site

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  how and why the human visual system works the way it does. The ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in-progress) by making a poster of their work and discussing it with other

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... , it was 64 percent. Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  January 3. We strongly suggest that you not wait until the very last moment ... Tracking. Please note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your ... Reports do not need to be submitted by January 3; they should be submitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  : If you have not completed all the testing requirements by the October test dates, you will not qualify for the Match. If you have not completed your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I ... of thematic umbrella that reaches over much of my work. Here are a ... , how does one go about getting their work shown publicly? For me it was

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  favorites was one that I didn't even remotely work on: No Silver Lining. I'll give you all a few days to work on it, then I'll tell you the funny story ... working on the same puzzle for the last 4 hours answers the phone. "Hello

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I ... frosh and they screwed up then and I am not just [annotation note="to be ... , institutionally, tell anyone asking for help that they do not need help"] one more

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  breaks at work-- [caption id="attachment_46022" align="aligncenter" width ... some buttery version of shortbread. Oh well. Last day at work-- Abu

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... easily be mistaken for it. And the rest... Well, the rest is the work ... that these freeform doodles were exclusively the work of CMS people. And

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012