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• 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
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school official at your school may submit your high school transcript
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  innovation internship at the Boston Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center through ... rounding team at one of the VA campus hospitals, and visited the VA's Brain ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• 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 / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if ... , it's just because they are releasing the decisions on 12/14 at 12:14pm ... that-- my friends have become ghosts in my life. Or at least, they will

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• 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 / 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 / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a ... , philosophical, and ethical look at the future of biotechnology. Despite it being ... from graduating seniors at my high school that the social aspect of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 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 / 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