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• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal semester, we don't have time to make any recipes we watch, so when we watch a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com ... afterwards. My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a last hurrah, my final journey into the world as a child. I took this ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a ... enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... more chances to experience a dorm's culture and style before choosing a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  a practical art, colloquially known as an Alternative Free Period ... of my personal spending into a spreadsheet, which I later rolled out ... Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  . I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so here's a ... performances, or to write lyrics that use Boo as a pronoun.) Do not use words ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn ... final robot competition, where students for a single-run showcase on Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and ... to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways ... been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... ago, [annotation note = "It feels like we did this a year ago..."]that's when I sat down[/annotation] with two chemical engineering students and a

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... ! (Grill and chill and build on the booklet): Every REX, East Campus has a ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tag Yourself a tote bag meme

  

  we have many tote bags. our freindos have commented on our many tote bags. they have even called us suburban moms. we don't disagree. we made a meme with them - karen c.'20, katherine c. '19, nia m. '20

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 8, 2018