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• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  After submitting your application, you will be notified if there is an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via…
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  We read applications from students interested in everything from apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... New England Regional (more details here). Now I've been to sports games

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... know that I got this blogger position through my really terrible quality, non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  Have you guys all seen this silly thing? Yeah, I thought so. It already has its own Wikipedia page. I made you one. It will describe my life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competitions -- concluded in Merida, Mexico. This year, 513 competitors from 93 ... themselves here). The problems are stated in a straightforward fashion, making

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... technologies from 18 households without electricity in Kien Svay, developing and

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break. mmmmm

  

  mom’s spaghetti.

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • April 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April:

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 6, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I ... distinction, but an important one in understanding the agency of admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  aren't in the competition; they will be performing purely for our hearing ... sites and predict a winner! I'll think long and hard and make my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…

  

  I did the vlog thing!   I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory:

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

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

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website ... our friend Randall Munroe. I like the last panel, personally.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009