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• FAQ / Transfer

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

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit ... course of study and institutional offerings.
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• 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 / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  light comes in bright blue around the edges of my windowshade, and my room ... on MITConfessions. 9.35 - 9.45 am: i reluctantly get out of bed ... all"]kitchen[/annotation]and eat my traditional weekday breakfast of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 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

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take care of myself. I went to mental health & counseling at 10am, and I ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• 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 / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of ... for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 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 / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today, we have the privilege of dissecting the first term of my freshman year ... was going downhill pretty quickly, so I spent a lot of time fighting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• 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
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... MITs, but with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025