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• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  ; Plains States 13% South/Southwest 8% West Coast 18% Abroad 13% States ... Least distance traveled: Cambridge, MA The only two US states not represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... . Someone offered me juice made with dried peaches, which has a special name

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  into great universities, but ended up attending local community colleges ... universities thought otherwise and calculated unrealistically high expected ... things MIT students do to afford college. Does MIT offer sholarships to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  [/caption] (3 units) 8.A22 [Black Holes, the Accelerating Universe, the ... Jobs Paid Notetaker - A paid notetaker position was offered for both 6 ... is a pretty good opportunity when it gets offered, and it’s typically

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  more detached to reach the state i am at now, where i feel comfortable ... media because you’ve never used it are extremely different states of being ... different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... don't like to sit still. So, about a month after my return to the States ... around the southwestern states as you learn to fly. So, I flew over the

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 10% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 21% Abroad 11% States represented 49 Countries represented 63 ... , MA The one US state not represented: Wyoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short ... to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of ... advanced placement exams offered by third party organizations. Instead, most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  SCP universe, named after the eponymous SCP Foundation, a secret ... . What if there was an in-universe explanation not just for why superpower ... memory of how they got there. This turns out to be the ideal state of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  Cambridge University as a whole, but instead apply to a specific college, of ... , you pay tuition to your home university, but room rent to the university ... national and personal ideals and the state of the world. However, people here

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event ... effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... that spoke directly to a state of being–in stasis, or peril, or

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  ,[/annotation] some people tried naming all the states in the US. They got to 33 ... through California. Right after, I was offered the keyboard. Jonathan read ... declare their exhaustion with the current state of the website and say they

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... the States, I’ve been on the subway twice during my Freshman Pre ... offered at the aquarium, then visit for the aesthetics- the dimly lit

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT ... Dormitory at BU. Also, there are other shots of Bay State Road (one artery of ... first meetings between Rosa and Ben, Ben states that he took orgo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then ... /10 such that Example: “Should the laws be changed such that the state has less power?” Translation: “Should the laws be changed so that the state

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide. In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... , and Prof. Arthur Bahr generously offered to read it with me. After I graduated, Arthur offered to put me in touch with a medievalist at Caltech

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... was looking up history offerings at Harvard for the fall semester. After

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008