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• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  interests with others helps to get your thoughts and priorities in order. In ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  submitting to the harsh campus restrictions and getting to live on campus with ... never getting to live on campus again otherwise, forced my hand. Since I ... -19 restricted MIT campus. To clarify, I don't actually need to live on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... , hire a professional agency to take on this project—and I am very much not

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium ... taking the class - it'll give you universal shop access to many shops on ... like to put a nerdy spin on things. During a lesson on food and water

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  obsessed with Oprah.) Also, how being as networked as possible on LinkedIn is ... obligated to blog about it. Me: Definitely! But how can I construe it as ... Macaroni, whom we had encountered earlier on the way to dinner. I give

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  's especially frustrating when your TA can't seem to get powerpoint open; nobody ... on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  on weekdays). We appreciate your patience as we rapidly transition to ... reaching out to engage you on how we should best work together moving forward ... you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  'd also like to know how many Indian students on average get admitted into ... chances of getting into MIT?? and if so, then by how much?" I'm sure your ... learn some hindi and of course urdu know how follows itself. its grt to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  start blowing. While you’re blowing, push on the tip of the glass with ... pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an ... -AR chairs, teaching anyone who wants to learn, how to make their own AR ... walk through the tunnels to get around campus. Tunnel66 is an interactive

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th ... your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your ... your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  get your groceries and sit down to have lunch at like the same place! I ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  makes much more sense to pass out of bio and get a head start on ... you score a 5 on Calculus BC, you can get out of 18.01, Single-Variable Calculus. If you score a 5 on both Physics C tests, you can get out of 8

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... 's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  " well on your SATs to be admitted. To answer your question, though, a very ... faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... . Kamran also wrote, "I am going to try very hard to get good scores on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  really happy to get to spend time with y'all, doing cursed things on the T ... struggle for me – I tend to get stuck on details. For context, it took me ... had planned out a google doc of logistics the day before. due to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... to get through it all. I wasn't sure how I would get through some weeks ... to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021