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Apply / Preparing for MIT
Academic foundations
This section will focus on academic preparation for first-year applicants—in other words, all domestic and international students who are finishing up high school. We have separate recommendations for transfer students,… -
Apply / Preparing for MIT
Summer programs
We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend your summers in the… -
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Blog / Academics & Research
anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
bones there would be no body without the bones. just how there would be no “college” without the hallmarks typically associated with the classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(
As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other universities might continue to… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students
Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now easier than ever to share new… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts
Last August, the MIT Admissions blogs turned twenty. Over the past week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us—just like… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
everything i made this year (mostly)
Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able to push any… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed
So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT.… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
parallel universe for those feeling dejected
Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It’s not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don’t have any advice, just a feeling.… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!
Did you know that President Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th president, has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
[Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit
Jebby Every fall since 2014, Next Haunt puts together a horror-themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture… -
Blog / Athletics
And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game
Soccer season is officially over. Holy smokes does time fly. It feels like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in my practice gear and… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
halloween down the infinite
Happy (slightly belated) 87 so if you think about it i'm technically still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too close to the sun,… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.
I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them really… -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
[Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27
I’ve had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt
last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation… -
Blog / Athletics
[joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤
intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT student life is that every dorm comes… -
Blog / Admissions
Painting by number The anti-formula
image generated by pbnify.com In a rant post many years ago, I referenced the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number” applications that could often be appealing at first…