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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  a global impact, and to superb graduate programs, all recognized as among the finest in the world. With more than a dozen academic fields, the ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are discouraged from taking the test, in order to protect

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  house used to be a doctor's office and home, until MIT scooped it up a few years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to ... these, as he got to enjoy a strawberry the size of his fist. Music: An

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack their tubes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz ... 've even worn a tie (*gasp*) for the occasion! I'm excited but also nervous ... assure you we'll treat your application with the utmost skill and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... tonight, just to offset the danger of crying in favor of crinkly laugh lines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  lives in Florida, anyway??)(No, don't answer that.) Dear Bryan, I woke up this morning excited to verify the existence of this thing you call ... stop telling malicious lies. Thank you. Yours, JKim

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  toy? Our assignment in lab the next day was to build a pull toy. You ... the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... that being a blogger obligates me to be, of course took pictures. There

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  . Depending on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science ... . Fortunately, each decision is made on a case-by-case basis and depends on your
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid ... Paris. Surprise fact: as in this video, Jacob was originally scheduled to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push ... The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... . It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... to the hunt organizers. There was a pause while they checked, and then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... ] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... final project presentations are held annually in before a live audience of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... , from buildings under construction to a Ferris wheel on the pier. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his ... /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  looking both awesome and silly in front of a TARDIS poster imported from ... able to take a break this weekend to watch scary movies or dress up for ... 's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013