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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to ... with other motivated high school students and take classes. The program ... knows, it might just change more lives. I ended my last post with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  movie "Real Genius," whichis always quite popular with the MIT crowd as we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  with you because this case was one concrete example of just how little we ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with ... their various talents to MIT and share them with others, people who will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  among the finest in the world. With more than a dozen academic fields, the
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  with an asterisk. They should not list practice results or enter a
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  will have completed at least two terms of study with high academic
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  countryside is gorgeous at this time of year, with all of the rolling hills dotted with forests, and the occasional river underneath the road. It ... a little box, and, with that, I was officially off the grid

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... teenager on the phone with their first crush: sitting in the back, kicking my ... 10:00 AM) I have a love-hate relationship with the little

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  , and it was (relatively) cheap. My order: A steak with salsa, fried ... diner on Mass Ave near MIT, with the twist that everything they serve is ... adventurous in my order.) My order: A latte. Corned beef hash with fruit

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do you feel in your bones ... with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... time I chose to be with friends, of which many choose to live in the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  , I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness ... forty minutes later, my phone exploded with an onslaught of notifications ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  with me tonight voices the entirety of her internal monologue aloud even ... for, I requested beans and chicken. I made eggs with no oil and then ... , though. When you looked up at the mountain, it was specked with white dots

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with ... , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited ... I'm not in class just hanging out with the people I live with. When I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... limits, and it is always nice to spend some good time with friends and ... different. One, I do not have someone else to walk with. Alan Z. '23 (another

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  the other with a hammer until something bends. I remember going on a ... with something else"]could,[/annotation] since I didn’t know if I’d get ... because it unexpectedly had mandatory attendance and overlapped with another

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  with your controller and score as many points as you can. The ... 't have a problem with majoring in [annotation note="Artificial Intelligence ... coursework, it would be 6-4. But what do I really want to do with my life

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition ... stuck with me ever since: There was a half-smile on Professor Quirrell ... right with n independent random steps will, on the average, end up about

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , assembling aluminum and delrin and re-establishing my relationship with the ... are an opportunity to network, but also to engage with community — in ... country to set up in the ballroom and engage with readers and writers. Like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022