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• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  . It will save you and us some angst in the long run. [For example ... If you are applying to MIT this year, here's an update on what you ... contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  resaarcher in the media lab has designed an alarm clock that runs away from you ... circulation and increasing synaptic activity in the brain. An hour in my chair ... Posthumous isn't the right word, but it's among my favorite in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  nothing more than an walking IV for them. When will it be my turn to rest ... 've always liked just sitting in whatever vehicle it may be. I loved being in ... the station and I must interrupt the quiet peace I've found in transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... an EMT, even though doing any of those would also have been great. For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... of things off my proverbial plate."]Awhile ago,[/annotation] I got an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  Stanford for my PhD. I grew up in Logan, a small town in southeastern Ohio ... anxiety was an  In short, he explains that MIT doesn’t perform one calculation to determine an applicant's “score”, and instead looks for people

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... sends you an email! Hooray! Set up a meeting with the grad student for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the ... shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my ... allotted late days, so I won’t incur a penalty for turning this in late. But

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  trapped within an image. You can see it in action on the Project Naptha ... about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  placed in, but either your salary, the place you work for, or MISTI will ... been in an accident, and then automatically place an emergency phone call ... change something in my code I have to wave the thing around like an idiot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  the day… Armed with a handy 40% coupon, we put in an order for all the ... whipping cream. Despite charging us for an even larger carton than we ... was still young! It was time for... a rager? Nope, time for an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  in a cook-for-yourself community. It could be helpful for parents as ... for information about non-MIT meal kits and meal prices in general. The ... not be in the top 5 reasons for choosing a living space. Another

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  Marching Mapper is an application for designing marching band drills ... me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use, even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you're considered an international applicant if you're not a United States citizen or ... resident status. If there's a change in citizenship status during the
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  character for just a bit. After about an hour, I trudged back into my dorm to ... clean slate. I made my bed for the first time in months (sorry, roommates ... in the energy of my high school for longer, or asked friends more than

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  everyday bit of fun in an airport should have been the line for bag check-in ... fact that I’d waited in line for about an hour already (what, do these ... all? you may ask. In all honesty, nothing. There is no reason for you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006