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• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  never heard of an international science olympiad. My high school wasn ... , but then taught economics at Harvard Business School. Finally, after a ... professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  and wedding announcements have appeared. Several of my middle school ... myself, mostly because my birthday always falls at the start of the school ... The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... people here. I fortified myself against the stresses of this school by ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue ... , I have found myself, well, back at MIT. Granted, it has kind of been ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our ... that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... offer. But at the same time, there were downsides. By the end of senior

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  business. I did nothing almost all of spring break (except binge watch Black ... : Real Analysis (18.100A) Physics II (8.02) Fundamentals of Programming ... my moods. 90% of my stress from earlier in the quarter (and last

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... . Also during your introduction, give a little snippet of information about ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP ... while attending a community service event at my high school, I broke into

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  recommendation forms, what are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of ... other schools on your list. It's an unfortunate fact of life that, in all ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005