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• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Years Eve! Also, the CSS Profile and FAFSA are about to become available for financial aid applicants (and remember, MIT is need blind for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  I've been thinking about something since I left work today, and felt compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don ... . You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  assure you we'll treat your application with the utmost skill and understanding, and will make the most fair decision that we can. More updates as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... in the context of the entire application, and would distract the reader

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  Decisions will be released mid-December for Early Action and mid-March for Regular Action. We'll email instructions for accessing the decision letters as soon as the official release date(s) and time(s) have been
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of ... . You can fill out our Tell us about yourself! form and you will be added
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat ... closest friends are still those I met at MIT (including my husband), and there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  few days ago and then fell asleep. and then got caught up with making ... "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  semester a little less hellish, and (3) exploring Boston and Cambridge. UROP ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... sandbox, and the software creates an animated topological map that changes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  minutes away from MIT by foot and dope as hell. There's an upstairs and ... existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... 3rd and spent the majority of the day lugging all our boxes from the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the same, of course—the beanbags and squishables in the main lounge were gone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... with the auditorium lights, my excitement and energy was not alone. The night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... (grad behavioral, 14.160, and labor, 14.661), poetry workshop (21W.762

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere ... Chris Peterson's powerful and beautiful Marathon post*, I question

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... /No Record basis, and she is allowed to slip. But the lengthy vacation will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014