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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... , SCOIR, Cialfo, or MaiaLearning. Regardless of where documents are ... MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers. The most
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful ... . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  plenty of building going on next week, and we are so excited for you all to ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community ... so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  asking one of the members for an autograph which, WAS, for my friend who ... ...the wonders of Youtube. Here's a photo of them in concert later on in the ... was my Bible. I think I touched base on all the categories of events. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  member of the Class of 2010 and would like to request a one-year (or ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  " painted on its side, but I'm not actually going to tell you what it is yet ... wanted to know the material, whether or not you kicked butt on the exam ... to make sense of the Hammond Postulate, or you get to explain the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us ...  noble tradition of infinitely long, rambling, nothing-is-offtopic-because-everything-is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... requesting a personal meeting with him (or one of his science/tech staffers ... I'm Senator Markey?] I'm going to be in Washington DC on Mach 26th to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers ... . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand the scope of it til this afternoon. Times Report on the Earthquake When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a very special sunrise. On this day, the summer solstice, the sun is ... , people popped their heads out of their offices and labs to see this special

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken-or ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as ... capstan to raise an anchor) or hauling task (like raising the sails). Modern

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities for Admitted Students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  UROP this summer, two of which were federal holidays) -- we decided to ... -- because one of them is an MIT grad and because Adam and Malox like to sing ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which ... it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I ... pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... Convention. I donated  $20 and didn't think much of it. Fast forward to last

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof-based college math competition held on the first Saturday of December. The ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  , welcoming communities on campus willing to answer questions for current MIT ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well. ... MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ