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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make ... get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  had VR capabilities! The locals also offered us a selection of home ... Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  competitions and going to Charm School. Some of my friends are doing/running 6 ... in high school; the class goes from the beginning of first semester ... developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... , especially since so many MIT applicants also apply to the slew of top schools ... released (and possibly after you’ve been denied from one of your top schools

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more ... rollercoaster     It is now the day after the first day of school’s eve, more commonly known as the first day of school. I walked into the first lecture of

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  , the transition depends greatly on the rigor of your high school ... regardless of your high school preparation. You can also make life easier or ... barbeques around campus during the first few weeks of school, or from late

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  enduring symbol of class pride and school spirit. And right now for MIT ... 'm really proud of my school.) A full illustration and description of the ... Last Tuesday was a big day for MIT's class of 2019. After two years

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I ... Basically, I got hacked. Can I just say I love this school? :)

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia ... gallon of milk every morning. I am well known among family for ripping off

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  school will likely be very different, but in many of the most important ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  of the most competitive public high schools in the city. Because she was used to being at the top of her class, the transition to high school ... 'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor ... Taking aim at MIT Plano West sending 4 students, more than any school ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... high school. A semester of MIT taught me what twelve years of public ... of my class at OSU to get into the grad schools I got into this year. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we'll have 400 people in Monta Vista High School's auditorium in Cupertino, CA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... information about them. So, even though you've been away from high school for awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In between all of this, it's begun to hit me that I am now officially more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... little New England town that you probably haven’t heard of. Enter freshman ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012