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• 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
• 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 / Uncategorized

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

  

  restriction on rental cars. I woke up at 6am (very painfully) and hopped onto the T to end up at East Boston and collect the car (this took an hour ... un-parallel park. The car didn’t like me as much though, and at 8am

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  existed or did not exist at all for most of human history. Streets were lit ... ). At the beginning of the 20th century, Ford's famous Model T had not ... take at MIT and I'm definitely starting to understand why. 6.7960 (G

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  “from North Carolina”? A mainland girl at heart? Nothing can beat my dad ... [/annotation]. It’s hard to proudly claim the identity “American” when a guy at Mc ... ’s marching band uniform. I thought of waking up at 3 am to a “team alive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• 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