FAQ / Academics and research
How does pass/no record work?
of A/B/C.
As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you ... after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
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FAQ / First-year application
Do I need a high school diploma to apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?
One of the highlights of MIT's yearly academic challenges and competitions, the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge, connects students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of -
FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... of physical education. “They’re tactical. They involve strategy. Plus -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in -
Blog / How to Human
i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay
I've been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post -
Blog / About Decisions
What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside
It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in
already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the -
Blog / MIT Life
Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.
(funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some -
Blog / Academics & Research
Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…
* for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by ... is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…
. But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one -
Blog / Community Projects
Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch
IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
In many ways on average-posting
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was ... . Then, began the process of writing three blog posts, pieces of writing -
Blog / Challenges
Under Water catch your breath
. This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones ... known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by -
Blog / How to Food
everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good
spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent -
Blog / Travel
spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen
experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center
the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... feet pegboard, stretching away to the right of the Welcome Center entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane
year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In -
Blog / MISTI
A Tribute to the people of South Africa
friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to