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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in ... " which they may fill. Prospective athletes to MIT are subject to the same
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the MIT motto?

  MIT's motto, mens et manus, translates from Latin to mind and hand. This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application.
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer an online degree?

  MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning.
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  -binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... , and how I eventually committed to MIT. I’m not entirely sure how other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  (not by me) Explicit lyrics. Don’t play this in front of your church pastor.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET.   To check your decision on ... and password.   In order to verify that you will receive a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other ... else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to ... edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... triplets of numbers where the first two numbers add to the third L = {w

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... unexpected diversity,  I was shocked to find we also have our own frequency ... --” “You forgot to ID.” “Alpha-Mike-0-Golf-Uniform-Sierra” (AMOGUS) “Pretty

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you ... is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months between me and the person I was when I stood there last and I had nothing to ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to me recommending that I take this class! I’ve been waiting to take it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016