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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  non-traditional pathways.  Unfortunately, we are very limited to how many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT ... year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  &T has step-by-step instructions here. Lesser known is how to use Gmail to ... this nice little video I've made showing you how to log on to MIT ... I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  that last one today, prompting me to post. You could say it's how I ... (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people, if any, we will take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we will take from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away ... to me was this, paraphrased: Baltimore is better than ever. You

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  how appreciative they are of our efforts. MIT’s mission is to use ... allowed students to tell us how they improve the lives of those around them ... and passion to work collaboratively for the betterment of humankind. How

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  how many people came to the event. That way, the next year, we can try ... posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield's trip to the White House to join President Obama talk about clean energy research (video

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  with changing how you walk in response to an injury is that you can forget how to walk - the first time i injured my right foot, i took ... this for a few days i realized i didn’t really remember how to take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  , how did no one notice Yugi grew 2 feet every time he played cards?!), to ... Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre ... measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... I would slip into deep thought and realize how lucky I felt to be here

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  are called so because of how simple these tools make it to mess around ... "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys ... ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  which attempt to show the viewers how the end of the world affects the ... instead of seeing, for example, how the president will react to these ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  if I am not there to contribute? How can mom and dad help me with my OWN bills, if I cannot contribute to the household income? How can I ... this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I ... , so as to get internships, or get in to grad school? How much will you give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  this post to complain into the void about how annoying applications are ... We are in our senior year of college [annotation note="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  how to answer this came from the Yale Admissions Podcast, which is an excellent resource for essay writing. To paraphrase Episode 6: How did your ... that excite you and how transferring to MIT can continue the journey you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025