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• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to ... will allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly ... fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My advice would be to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  2399 on the SAT I, do I need to retake it?!?" :-) More on the Q&A ... recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  immediately lent me her caution cape to wear as a cool accessory. (Thanks ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather ... 'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism A day in the life. In full color. =)

  

  . Then I went here (because it was nice out) to read this and then here just to visit (because I heard it was cool) and then to a meeting for this and then here to study for this with other people from here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites ... unethical. So - thanks again to everyone who helped turn this wrong into a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee ... to your family, you are welcome to wait until you learn if you've been
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  broken (if you guys would like to remedy that, it's a Canon Powershot SD600 and I take PayPal donations), but I've quite a bit of questions to catch ... Anon? I feel like we're already good friends). That's a lot to cover, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub ... class, and walked to the DuPont T-Club Lounge. The T-Club Lounge has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid Poll: Who was your favorite superhero?

  

  Flashback to the days of elementary school: Did anyone else read comic books? Batman was by far my favorite superhero. Poll of the day ... fact I just discovered Iron Man also went to MIT.

  • by Bryan
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... ; Whereas most universities force you to purchase a huge, gut-stuffing, wallet-busting, totally superfluous meal plan, MIT doesn't force you to buy a meal plan at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... . I’m extremely drawn to bright colors. This would be more of a problem ... ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get through a big chunk of my ever-growing list of blog posts to write. Today, I ... four years than to take a look at something that's been with me through

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  we both applied! We both got to the phone interview stage. A couple ... parents that entailed going to many malls and a bus tour. But for me that ... close to a supermarket and restaurants, most of my IAP was actually spent

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... news. To be clear, this idea is different from the push to integrate a ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions ... what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... defer all of the rest to the RA round. A big huge welcome to our newest

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of ... minutes to plan a lesson is infinitely better than none. And having a few

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019