FAQ / First-year application
How does the MIT admissions process work?
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FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful. You can fill out our Tell us about yourself! form and you will be added -
Blog / MIT Life
Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.
lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the -
Blog / Blog Projects
the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming
celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... this, and so much more?— When the blogs were created in 2004, the i ... apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first -
Blog / Admissions
CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET
people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... introducing some online options, including: iPhone/iPod App: Leading off the -
Blog / Admissions
CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.
Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get even better from here. Really, words fail me. I almost feel like a pre -
Blog / Academics & Research
21E our major in a diagram!
We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we ... HASS = Humanities Arts and Social Sciences REST = Restricted Elective in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Science Times
A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York ... . Erik Demaine, turning in his hands an elaborately folded paper structure. The intricately pleated sail-like form swooshes gracefully in a compound -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.
homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... and l'IUP in Paris. So far, we've done word associations and sentence completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.
professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... helpful in our math problem set group. Later, I learned that he was the top ... 't really big in that sort of stuff. Rather than be intimidated, I took this -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.
twelve rows back in the stands, I was still deathly afraid of being ... . Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... 's what's been going on in my life. Yesterday in 6.002, somebody brought a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.
last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left ... . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is -
Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
:45 AM. Well, dude, I'm in college; I'm not don't have the money to take ... , authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an entire kilometer to help dedicated fans watch World Cup soccer. Now, I was -
Blog / MIT Life
Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...
semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms ... final exams. I’m peeking out from underneath my rock (with some prodding ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a -
Blog / Events
101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.
Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... -lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those -
Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.
hope in some small way I might have touched theirs. ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me, talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the -
Blog / Events
Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!
Obama's speech in person this afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, you can join ... technology. These lights can be fabricated in a simple molding process ... can watch a live webcast of the speech here: MIT President Obama Live -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.
wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do -
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MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it
nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Cheese During in-house rush, I was told that the G unofficially stood for ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon