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• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a ... part of my proposal was an outline to turn the portal into more of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  , economic analysis of Bono's visit, my entry is about rock concerts and ... with my laptop in the middle of writing particularly insidious HASS papers. Good thing they installed wireless access points covering all my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... Andorran system is actually the most recent! Why Andorra? Even my host dad ... , this was my first time teaching. I was placed at a school called the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has ... spring, we traveled to New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and my home state ... these incredible rural students from my home state was both nerve

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you’re considered an international applicant if you’re not a United States…
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to ... of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major ... .00 - Introduction to the Psychological Sciences; I needed a class to fulfill my HASS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  near my family, worked as an architectural researcher and urban planner ... changed my baby, grabbed scraps of sleep when possible, and eaten the nice ... patterns excerpted from the unwritten idiosyncratic commonplace book of my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  co-taught my 7.03 (genetics) class this semester. This was his lecture ... came after I turned my camera off. See, a lot of you are probably in the ... readers are mostly prospective students, unless you’re my mom. Sorry mom

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers. The most competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. We also…
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... PLAYING videogames and then WRITING about them. Literally my three favorite ... one of my favorite classes of the day! I really love being able to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  rest of the day in a bathrobe with my cat on my lap, reading weird

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application portal. Materials submitted through sources other than the application portal itself (Naviance, fax, mail, etc.) require at least three…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would share with you guys what me and Nathan, my project partner came up with

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... off the REM-induced advances of a million alkyl halides out for my head.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s alive! I built a little car.

  

  For better or worse, my 2.007 car actually drives. It's not quite as ... . My car is sitting in front of me begging for some TLC. UPDATE Today, in lab, Professor Blanco helped me on my car! Thus, it's still not done

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email…
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  's greatBut while in this world I think I'll take my whiskey neatMy coffee black and my bed at threeYou're too sweet for meYou're too sweet for me I take my whiskey neatMy coffee black and my bed at threeYou're too sweet

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  a/n: this post is a little outdated - my hair is currently a faded blue. I recently got my hair re-dyed. My mother usually insists that I get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023