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• 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 / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  of the US. In middle school I wanted to be popular. Freshman year of ... . Junior year of high school I secretly wanted to be an engineer. Senior year of high school I came out as a wannabe engineer and applied to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge ... session. Here I am with 3 hours of sleep and 50+ hours of stitching. By the end of the weekend I had created this masterpiece. In 2023 I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an ... being. Simultaneously, though, loneliness was a big part of my high school

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  applications makes me extremely optimistic about the state of our schools. And ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... those of you who are looking for one: "We will be running an annual bike ... pick up some other college essentials... " Enjoy the last week of summer!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  live or attend school. Don't be concerned about having a lot of extra ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus, which includes a dedicated Office of Student Veterans Success (SVS), committed to supporting the academic, financial, and personal goals of
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  school, Java counts as Math credit, but I was wondering if the lack of ... ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we ... you can get a sense of the basic design direction.   Student ... of assessing and providing financial aid with billing and collecting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  President Obama has proclaimed today National Day of Making, an opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  New.com that offered $20,000 worth of design, engineering, marketing, and ... As of exactly one year ago, toys have completely taken over my life ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] As some of you might already know, the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened last ... , clever new interpretations, and a great deal of humor, and Midsummer Night

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to ... are 4 of us!" So he rounded me, Keri, and Jess into the frame and had ... . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006