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• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  attention to the Class of 2010, and the new SAT (and ACT and TOEFL) will be an ... full year of university before entering MIT as a transfer. I don't know ... about that, change of plans... instead of being in downstate New York this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and ... from the rest of the universe, surrounded by our own skin as people ... interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... aware of itself. Maybe New York was like that too, full of feelings I ... give all of myself to anything? In New York, I visited two recent

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... one of America's top universities -- will compete for a full scholarship ... Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1988

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  We’re number 1 — but for whom? the global ranking vs the local fit

  

  a universal, ordinal ranking of colleges and universities is at best ... to be the valedictorian of MIT or have summa cum laude on their diploma ... is the best university for you —  regardless of ranking.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... university shields us from the recession and a sea of red shelters our tiny ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  will most likely use the TOEFL 600 in our process. A score of 600 puts ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The ... provide a lot more of information about myself other than what's on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities ... artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... effort. as the weeks of this semester have passed, I feel like I've been grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is: # Be subtle. Don't leave evidence that you were there ... saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  decision. We make no distinction between the importance of SATI (or TOEFL ... bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  of University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a standing room only crowd, with University of Miami Dean of Admissions Ed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has an established agreement, and both universities exchange students with