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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... summaries of your applications, and now we take those summaries and work from them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... negative impact on your chances of admission.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from ... reality. The mission of the MIT Institute Community & Equity Office
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  the marketplace. The center empowers some of MIT’s most talented ... technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there a medical facility on campus?

  MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  of decisions. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009