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• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How much it costs

  full data.']$10,268[/annotation] in the 2024–2025 academic year ... are not disadvantaged in the undergraduate admissions process because of their financial need. We are one of only nine schools in the U.S. that is
• Discover / Life and culture

  Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

  computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of ... installations in the Stata Center's ground floor.
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How to apply for aid

  30 in order to receive a financial aid offer by mid-January. Regular Action applicants must submit their required documents by February 15 in
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Extracurricular activities

  .  Some students find room for many activities in high school; others prefer
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two
• Discover / About MIT

  Basic facts

  note='Source: MIT Facts']Campus[/annotation] 168 acres (0.68 km2) in
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... ." Just a few months ago, I would never have said that in public to someone ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by ... Waterstones and bought I think five more. My favorites would be Lud-in ... writing retreat in Sheepwash, Devonshire where I would be interning. We took

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  overview of the plan will suffice: our journey would start in Mattapan ... note="CJ: I’m gonna write things in 24-hour time for this post. Alan is ... are also in 24-hour time, I’m just writing this way in opposition to CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in ... Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  experiences I have had in Brazil, South Africa and now Vietnam, but also because ... they wish the HASS requirements would just disappear, but the lesson I ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  them as well as we can in the moment. He asked me what I would tell an ... wanted parts of both options and all of neither. In the end, I went to talk ... school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  kinda funny. When I was little, my mother would often say, in the ... mother, brother and I would go to the local grocery store to buy things ... the nightmarket in Nanjing. I would often hang out with my older cousin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... 'm glad I moved in with my friends, and let them convince me I would love to ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021