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• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  ” section of the MIT application. They will receive an MIT-specific Secondary ... transcript and any other materials they may have. A school counselor letter of
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  accepted methods. If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are ... official transcript. Transcripts should include three years of subject
• Blog / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  eleven other students have Ubered over to the other side of Cambridge for ... ).  On the first day of class, our instructor gave us the assignment to take the vital signs of 25 people so that we’ll be prepared to do it in

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  A live DJ. 1000+ sparkly pompoms. One of the biggest events of the ... audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... !) [annotation note="photos are the bane of my existence. i fear i may have to give

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  warning: mentions of anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks. please ... story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the story’s climax, he introduces the idea of self-destruct commands - since

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  three major hikes to speak of, plus one noteworthy run: [caption id ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... . I imagine my head contained a lot of static. If this were a lifestyle

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... because my logic approaching inversions had been based off of trapeze, where ... maybe Monday. This was sort of [annotation note = "provided some content

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my ... by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... the disastrous combination of boring and detail-oriented—but every year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... beats, unlike almost all other figures. the rest of the dance had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post ... of my working day revolves around said specific terms. also, because ... lot of software specific terms. to be fair to both groups, i'll try and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  making any of that happen because it was something that future me would handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Airport Problems, Three Years Later we all have different coping mechanisms for coming back to school

  

  Francisco, questioning all the decisions that led me to this point of my life ... summer I took ~10 flights, and all of them were either delayed, cancelled, or both. (It’s either that or U*ited is a terrible airline, but of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • August 30, 2026
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  ="368"] the moment of truth. let's see if i can swim 100 continuous meters

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023