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• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  things that arrive today to not appear on the tracker for another week or ... - the best way to do it is via fax. Saves on postage, trees, and carrier ... acceptance during Early Action. One byproduct of this is that we were able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... ’d spend up to twenty hours working on every last detail of every problem. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... to dresser. Grab change of clothes. Walk to bathroom. Turn on the ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  other major mutations. To this, Carlos said, "This is typical of many ... , and how it is representative of everything in my life. Due to a ... 've been to Medical. All of my tests are normal. This is a serious issue

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... percentage of people who dye their hair weird colors.  It may come to you as no surprise that I plan on spending most of rush hanging out at Random, with a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an undergraduate/graduate class which uses programming to design stuff. We learned

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Associate Head of House apartment installed somewhere on their floor, which is ... experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for ... orange and black tiles on the floor outside the elevator landing, which is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  week, I arrived on campus full of that fear, which quickly seemed to be ... people who would go on to become part of my MIT family. On the first day, I ... so willing to take on my passion as their own. What I've found is that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  than 76%, which left very little space to admit students off of the wait ... decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students ... , our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to ... ; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT on the other hand, is not a rectangle (in fact it feels like the most

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  surreptitiously going up to the statue of a mouse which is believed to be the ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  it is helpful to you. Q. Do you prefer the SAT or the ACT? A. We ... . What score should I get on the TOEFL? A. TOEFL is the one test for which ... those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  more education or simply because their job is here. Lots of those people ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... burned out and ready to move on, and although I still talk to the younger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  the [annotation note="Short for “Registry of Motor Vehicles”, which is ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  -and-variations. He then had to take three of the ten compositions we submitted on ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I ... , "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end ... week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  halls will offer continental breakfast, something which is a rare find on ... $2,250 a year on food – and that figure includes lunch, which is not ... to go out to eat on the weekend, it is extremely rare that one eats at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010