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• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their ... Years Eve! Also, the CSS Profile and FAFSA are about to become available

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is fixed! The deadline for EA has been extended to November 5 due to the recent MyMIT…

  

  The site is back online and peace has been restored to my world. :-) The last two days have been somewhat insane, but I'm glad everything has ... ... As you may have noticed, the deadline for EA has been extended to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit a creative/maker portfolio as a QuestBridge applicant?

  required. To learn more about the different kinds of portfolios you can ... QuestBridge applicants submit portfolios using the same system that ... . The deadline for QuestBridge applicants is November 1, and fee waivers
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  . The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to ... socioeconomic means, live in a rural area, or might be the first in their family to attend college. If you have any questions about the weekend, please
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental ... maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  , after the winter/Christmas break). Regardless of schedules, MIT dorms are ... was only interrupted by renovations during the summers of 1998 and 1999 ... blog about the transfer process. I promise it is on my list of future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... that my January was more representative of the average student’s here. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore ... was born and raised in Columbia, MO – home of the Mizzou Tigers ... ’s mascot. Seriously.) – located smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. While it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  the names of their kids' schools as status symbols. You've craved an environment full of other intelligent people. When the going gets rough in high ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... of these, using the situations of fictional freshmen. Be aware ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... NJ. The Central Jersey meeting went well that night; nothing out of the ... of my childhood on the Jersey shore. The people in New Jersey are some

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... ? Well, the answer is that taking vacation in the peak of application ... along the edge of the pink sand - the concerns of the world blowing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four" with "three and more!" Note that out of about ten people in the marching ... day of classes, after finding out the ISBNs for my classes, I went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... entry for you other clueless '09ers. Right. So, just a note- the rest of ... page and the font is some hideous shade of purple or something, don't be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of you who have completed all or some or none of what you planned for the ... It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received ... us. If they need another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the ... fell asleep. As a rule of thumb, I'm generally always the first person to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of ... always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... subset of my actual experience. I had pictured all the moments of triumph over hard things and meeting some of the world’s most interesting people

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016