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• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to ... be tomorrow (Friday) at from 5-7pm in Stata Center room 32-155. I know ... attend HMMT), I want to be able to take some time to see the MIT Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  - most of the bloggers were 7. Or 8. Maybe 10 max. Wow. Well, I'm old enough to remember. I'm old enough to remember sprinting home in fear ... tower where I was was a target. I'm old enough to remember the feeling of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome ... of Chi Phi, when they're not playing in 2,000 pounds of imported snow ... Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool ... promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  we can’t give you an opinion of what your chances are, we can give you ... the most of the Institute when you're here. You can learn more about ... get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... in the winter), and I am spending three glorious days of complete

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... digital calendar simply wasn't going to cut it. Instead, I took advantage of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  foreign language to me as of now, so I am really working extra in this class ... begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... field is just crazy. Look them up! I never had a true interest in biology

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  Leatherman in your pocket?) and I supported the window with a knee and both hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... much faster reaction time than I do, since in the seconds it took for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... : "I met him in December and he also saw Rafa (Nadal) and Novak (Djokovic ... pretty impressed," said Roddick. "He didn't come in with kind of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... fall. However, the residences put a lot of effort into i3 videos, and ... all the 2020 i3 videos below in case you would like a glimpse into how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process ... citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food ... , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  have 4 large windows that I normally open to let the breeze in. I like to ... room in the middle, there are always lots of people in our room. In the ... want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants, and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the ... hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024