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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  unique to the MIT community. We don't have cutoff scores for the SAT or ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We ... a sense of what we look when selecting students for admission
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  free summer for the first time since high school, I knew things had to be ... groundwork for continuing to do it. A tip experienced artists always give is to ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... also planned for us and one of my favorites was our trip to the Boston ... -year learning community in the MIT Morningside Academy for Design where I get to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... friend. For the next two years, I continued to be a BME major and swore I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... satisfied with, you can switch it to listener status, salvaging your GPA for ... broadsided with something close to a 30/100. For the second exam, which he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... ready to help you out. For women, there are spa parties, movie nights, and ... ourselves into a wing, they took us out for dinner, from pizza to Greek food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  grant application to the Dutchess County Arts Council for a series of ... presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor ... has volunteered with the organization for two years. "Sulinya is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell ... headed over to the European Career Fair, for students interested in working ... back to the office to read applications for a while until 4:45pm or so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... to salty and sweet foods that, after not being exposed to it for a ... rice and eating only the fish to save room in our stomachs for more. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the ... GEL staff have already said they want to keep this activity for next ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  us for the day when we may have to take out a real enemy bunker. We put ... , and water confidence. We got to shoot howitzers for an entire day, and ... appreciate things that other people take for granted, introduces you to many

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum ... 's mission for open education and digital learning. We took that proposal to an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week ... for this week was to think back on our lives, pick out a memory that ... , mustard-yellow couches, perfect for me to jump on when I got tired of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday ... of them til I find homes for them around here. So I took a trip back to ... to use the litter box, been to the vet and had their sex determined for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008