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• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no ... research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students ... some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  freshman year at MIT. A lot of people fail a whole class or two. This is okay ... city after all. 3. Al asked, is transfering to MIT hard than entering as ... most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... and the MIT Club of Boston, this reception is your chance to meet and ... Parents is Saturday morning at 9:00 am. A panel of current MIT parents will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  . Brewster Kahle is the MIT-educated former entrepreneur who began building the ... the bottom line to this story is that MIT values openness. Besides the ... . [...] While studying at MIT in the 1970s, Kahle says, there were two big ideas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  online reply form at MyMIT. You have three choices: tell us you ... ). Whatever your decision is, please do reply through the online form as soon as ... So... tomorrow is that fateful day. May 1. Otherwise known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  Beginning tomorrow (Saturday), MIT alumni from around the world will ... great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT ... your MyMIT portal for the locations and times for these events, and for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  desperately I wanted to be here. This is MIT, and I am here. I taste the words ... posted online here. If you’re looking for a place to start, below is a ... days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  drawings. Neat stuff. This is MIT though. Outside of classes, there's always ... online again and ready to blog about what's happened so far (: As far as ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  . Is the tracking on MyMit just for online applications? I can't find ... on the online tracking. Is this something I should be worried about, or ... TOEFL. How will MIT consider this? Please tell me if there is anything I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  documents completed and/or transmitted online) to recent COVID ... time, for each of the last several years while I was away from MIT ... .   Conversation #2 (assuming there is an answer to my first question) Me: Does the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  ,000 tuition) many students at MIT don’t have cash on them. Cash is important, it ... /headphone company. Mr. Bose is an MIT alum and, as such, decided to be a really nice ... Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  too many students were online? Even though MIT, according to Wikipedia ... bus the most. It's like every bus in the general area is conspiring ... little bus sick and a cleaning is in order. Then there’s “deadheading

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  application itself. I know someone who's an MIT alum and is in the area. Is it ... . Saket asked, "Sir, as it is very difficult to get into MIT, what kind of ... -of-state schools. How important is class rank in terms of MIT admission? If my rank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email ... people who thinks that Stata is the most hideous excuse for a building I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out ... videos were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  former MIT students on the tube. This month, PBS is having competition ... MIT alumna, Aomawa Shields '97. You can watch the pilot episode online ... , but two from Harvard. Does that mean Harvard is outpacing MIT’s geek

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  contact information on your MyMIT page. Note that this deadline is before ... course, January 1 is our postmark and online submission deadline to apply ... word limits and with essay formatting; if the online submission was badly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where ... were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where ... were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where ... were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021