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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... student host didn't ask me what my SAT scores were. At MIT, people care ... . People at MIT don't compare GPAs (I didn't know any of my friends' GPAs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... little break from reading, eating some dumplings I bought down at Super 88 ... does the reading process work, you ask? I'll take the folders one at a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December. At that time, there are three things that could happen: You could be matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences essential—for educating young engineers, scientists, thinkers, and citizens
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  Admissions, helping to run these very blogs with Petey while also working at ... 're actively at MIT"]KERBEROS[/annotation] HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING FOR ... communications for an oncology-and-AI research group at a big biotech company a few

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... chaotic spreadsheet, we’ve arrived at a (prospective) menu: Is it ... Foods to pick up our turkey–which, apparently, was NOT small AT ALL. Oh

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the ... ="1000"] “[This painting] looks at how multiple things can be true at the ... stairwell, [created] entirely from vocal sounds that at times have an ambient

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in ... even learned to sow at the Metropolis Makerspace and made a reversible

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  weekend at the WildFire Flow Arts Retreat and learned how to [annotation ... "]flesh,[/annotation] [annotation note="essentially spitting lamp oil at a torch ... seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... dumb. I can’t swim. When I was little, I took swim classes at the ... and not put my feet down. My friends worked at a pool, and I know that I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  'll go to class, but at the end of the day I just want to go home, back to ... three semesters left at this school. I've been here long enough that when ... out anymore; I usually go to bed at the oh-so-early hour of 1 AM. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  English – especially not at (hopefully) MIT!” Boy, was I wrong. (Thankfully, not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... during their time at MIT. Two are humanities classes, and the others relate

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  repair shops and found one that did have a 3a screen. I glanced at the ... time I dropped it at a bus stop in the middle of northern Italy one night ... Mexican goods. At this point I wasn’t sure if it was worth the price

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  other computer science class I have taken at MIT. Still, I thought because ... .006 is taught and was seriously considering dropping it. At brunch on ... haven’t dropped a real class at MIT before and it was definitely not my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  mean, it looks like a plane at a given location (if you suppose that you ... metaphor will come through but this is the set up. When I was at my most ... dimensional. So when I was at my most existential, I worried that there might be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared ... nametag — Teresa, Missouri, uhhhh I applied as an [annotation note="at least ... alone, I had at least three people ask me where Missouri was. I had

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  :  there are some basic principles at work here:  when a player is open on ... players at once, since there is too much physical space between them ... the offense since the defense has a harder time sending double-teams at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  I ate dinner at Dumpling House with some friends. It's only been a ... were going to meet along Mass Ave. I arrived at Mass Ave shortly before ... after quarter after quarter. It reminds me of a conversation I had at my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... without any accountability. it felt at times that no one ever felt the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021