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FAQ / First-year application
Can I submit a maker portfolio?
The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that require creative insight, technical skill, and a hands-on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board -
FAQ / Testing
Will MIT accept November Tests for Early Action?
You can report all tests taken through November 30 for Early Action consideration. There will be an opportunity to update us with any test results that become available after you submit your application. To submit new -
FAQ / First-year application
How do I track the progress of my application?
days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a student's application—all materials have to be processed. We ask for seven business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular -
FAQ / International applicants
Can you mail me materials internationally?
Due to increasing mail costs and in an effort to be environmentally-conscious, we no longer mail materials internationally, and we do very limited mailing within the U.S. You may however, sign up for our monthly newsletter -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic
section to help remember how novel COVID-19 felt compared to the domestic crisis it is today. I want to preface this post by saying that it is incomplete. I've tried to pour every detail I can remember into it, but too -
FAQ / QuestBridge
Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?
science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a QuestBridge Finalist, you will be able to add the recommender information to your MIT QuestBridge Supplement, and they will receive directions on how to submit -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'
you ask. I couldn’t think of what to call it, and so it became desperate because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your Exhibition”, and apparently there’s a WikiHow article called “WikiHow: How to -
Blog / How to Human
The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.
nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design ... medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those ... proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty -
Blog / Academics & Research
Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.
efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts ... .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to -
Blog / Challenges
The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…
advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... which were back-to-back), writing about 30 pages on subjects ranging from -
Blog / MIT Life
chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;
inches. — “major winter storm to deliver 1-2 feet of snow across new england”, the tech from Sunday 06z to Monday 06z, the QPF is forecasted to be around 0.90 inches, corresponding to a snowfall of around 14 inches -
Blog / Uncategorized
snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time
Dear blog readers, I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this ... my way since then has been subjected to this treatment. I tell myself -
Blog / MISTI
Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world
valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... months to settle back and see what it's like being here and meeting other -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!
direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning ... organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
LSC Presents: Black Panther 2
beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going ... Engagements committee (SOLE) worked with LSC to set up the screening. This -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them
grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning ... suggested that we apply. I didn't really know what supplies to apply for at -
Blog / How to Food
A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!
IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you want your time to have formal structure, MIT provides opportunities to ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship -
Blog / MIT Life
Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride
One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were