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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... their environment, which made students of either what have now come to be ... mostly a tall tower; to access lots of people you have to make the effort

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  just to get into Boston. I feel kind of dumb now thinking that my moment ... a lot of charities for whom you can raise money to circumvent the ... along the side of the road to deter bandits. After meeting up, quite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call ... . You're going to be the one who has to take charge of that. And there ... philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone ... something that couldn’t crawl out of my plate or didn’t seem to be having

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  presentation contained the lyrics of "Don't Stand So Close to Me." The song, made ... -school counselors get together, they have plenty of stories to share about encounters ... and asked whether the young man had a chance of being admitted to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  of whatever high school that they went to or the best in an activity or ... 't strive to be the best we can be (because some of the people here are ... misconception to make about MIT. As a school, we consist of some amazing, high

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  benefit of DEW: exposure to MIT athletics. We got several personalized tours ... the absence of them). We also learned that MIT students tend to drink ... Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... MIT campus, and it made me think of my favorite places on campus to sit ... cushy chairs and lots of quiet. I like to take naps there. The rest of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... blocks of time I’ve been able to dedicate to uninhibitedly thinking about

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... point during the pandemic i was introduced to stoicism. one of its main ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... . None of it really comes naturally to me, and I have to work my ass off

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  relying on one larger vehicle to do it on its own. The focus of the project ... testing, and it introduced me to a lot of the software that I'm now using in ... expected to contribute more and work with a fair amount of autonomy. This was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... policy.[/annotation] We've been able to learn about a lot of different

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... !!! Three of my friends/teammates and I drove to Nashville and back during the ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... started and the endless supply of free food waned, it began to hit me that I ... . It's part of the freshman experience to take the same classes together

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... . Anyway, the rest of the night saw us to IHOP, with apparently half of MIT ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was slightly jealous of the other members of my EMT class, none of whom seemed to ... EMTs are some of the kindest people around - close to ten people

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  Cambridge—there are tons of places to check out. The Gold Star Mothers Park ... gorgeous views of Boston night or day! It's so nice to watch down the marina ... 's a great place to go. There are plenty of nice fields around it with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020