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• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  . Please visit our Tests & scores page for more complete details. Standardized tests are required for every first-year application to MIT. However ... evaluated within an applicant's context. To view test score statistics from
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a far more circuitous route. Specifically, I started my day by having some ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  hardly able to walk down the stairs. But by the end of the semester, our ... ’s right, MIT requires you to graduate with a strong mind and body, while ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  train: #5, two hours and 51 minutes late listening to: Do By Friday It ... not expect the catastrophe to develop so quickly. Because of this, the ... poetry once more. I continued to make good progress; honestly, even though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  make it to the restaurant, grab some food from what’s left of the ... 2 of the 4, and we’re back on our way to Boston. We make it, an hour ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... appear from year to year (such as "IHTFP" and the ivy leaves), while others

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  15 minutes for some teenagers at Elkins High School to make it :) The ... /high-schooler, you should get your science administrator to check out this page, so we ... - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... felt (enlightened) after the show. But I struggled to write anything that I felt truly encompassed what the show was about. So I reached out to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger that they were talking to a room full of MIT students. As it turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  ’s like ??  a good bowl of beef noodle soup is hard to come by. i fear that ... they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... CAD makes for this to be pretty cheap anyway. ambience was really nice

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  only two days to make my choice. Thinking back to those 48 hours, when I ... worked with each other to make sure we all "got" every problem, from ... quickly, almost feverishly, as I could to get down as much 8.012 knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  major has been so hard and fueled by indecision--I've had to [annotation ... major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  the page.  Still, I wasn’t sure if my poems mattered to anyone other ... , my debate coach said, “It’ll be hard to make anyone care. You were the ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... make the regretful decision to put this pset off until it's too late ... TALENTED DEV INTERNS TO HELP MAKE OUR BRILLIANT WORLD CHANGING [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  station on Central Square and down Prospect Street, making my way to Sennott ... people want to play Tichu. The four of us play games for hours. By the time ... first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show ... Services Extensions actually make work harder because it just pushes it to ... friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  to judge if you're convinced or not :P I will start by saying that I am ... useful to have some flour in a shaker jar. It makes it a lot easier to dust ... more vegetarian lately and that can make it harder to hit the daily

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to introduce ourselves and make small talk in Spanish and I was really ... physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I ... strong urge to make him soup or knit him a sweater because I just think he

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... gain from getting to know as many people as possible. I also quickly grew ... had any advice they wanted to give to the upcoming class.    

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... to and from California twice more, and to Arkansas once. (Frequent ... visiting with my family and trying to do as little as possible before the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009