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• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  my scores for your consideration? No: in fairness to all applicants ... consider scores only from those who have scored well and therefore choose to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  pictures of the games as well as my dad's scorecards (he keeps score on his ... [] Paul Konerko [] Poor Cubs fans My dad keeping score on his palm pilot His score cards:

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself getting smarter by ... common of these policies is "drop the lowest problem set score." So for ... : Drop the lowest score *out of psets that were handed in*. This is much

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  often on reddit.com, which you should by no means EVER visit if you are ... listen to your essay being read aloud, either by a computer or a friend, to ... about your numbers. Sure, schools will use your grades and test scores to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  in an East Campus Senator vs. Random Hall Senator match, and lost

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  keep ourselves sane by exercising a lot and reminding ourselves that this ... celebrates with Garden Parties and these massive celebrations called May Balls

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  resort by our hotel. I went snowboarding, while Anika went cross ... Pods with both click wheels and touch screens. Name the song by American ... . After dinner, there was an "academia vs. industry" panel, with four MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  Wish I could explain it better --- Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It ... by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... check by searching up the bike's serial number on bikeindex.org/stolen. it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] Yes, everyone; shocking as it may ... incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... others simply joined a theater group and learned by doing. I asked some of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  photon flux by one-tenth or one-hundredth of a percent. Determining the ... interaction with the research team, more contribution on your part. By the end ... still in its proposal stages) as an intern. By then I had a much more

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

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  student events, talks, and dorms than you would by visiting on any other ... , the inevitable "MORE FOOD THAN YOUR BODY HAS ROOM FOR", talks by faculty ... several thousand bouncy balls being thrown from a Senior Haus balcony into

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  graduate school admissions as long as your score's decent, but I felt like it ... computer, and you get your score immediately.) Adam was like, "Well, actually ... , by the time you're an upperclassman, you're less concerned about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  standardized test scores have been sent to MIT. Our College Board Code (for SAT ... (3514) as a recipient of the scores. If you haven't yet given your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  for my classes. Coursework (im)permanence. Hopefully by writing this, I ... oversimplification). This course is taught by James Aloisi, former Massachusetts ... .381 (G) Infrastructure Systems in Theory and Practice Taught by David Hsu

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  easiest. It should be covered by the classes you took and your grades and your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  ="I stand by cutting through Briggs Field."]Discover a shortcut that gets you ... most cost prohibitive item on this list (unless you somehow score free ... /Drop out.  Make some quick cash by participating in an experimental trial

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  our tbd GRE scores. Maybe we can take a gap year worst case? Every day ... , now we really like it. It’s 3D animated but made to look 2D by rendering the characters with hard shadows. It’s made by some of the people that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  photographers... are beautiful. When we got to Hull, we were greeted by a giant ... also the vice-president of the MIT Outing Club, so he scored us some nice ... got picked up by harbor patrol and taken safely to shore. Luckily

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  little ahead by running a protein gel -- I had run the samples before and ... . MIT doesn't admit students by major, and you're totally free (once you ... won't help you. 4. Anonymous asked what my GPA and GRE scores were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... wide range of highly interesting people stop by for you to conversate ... expected to know them all, anyway. And 70-something thousand scores. And a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005