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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December ... be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may ... send you an email in early December asking you how you would like to
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  among the finest in the world. With more than a dozen academic fields, the ... ; theater arts; and writing. All MIT students will complete courses in the ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  opened its doors in 1865. Since then, more than 12,000 officers have been ... exciting opportunities unavailable in the civilian world. Training each week ... . Any student may participate in the classroom training. Students who are
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will ... sustainable technologies and solutions for problems in the developing world
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  .5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math and science courses. Ideal ... covered more ground in one science discipline or another, or you may have ... –20. Take a chance, present yourself in the best light possible, and hope for
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  ..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority ... plane So i might lose that luggage I look at her, tears in my eyes, and ... :30am flight Bc now it leaves at 6:45 And I'm in comfort seating because

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy ... , the observing shall continue until some point in the morning. Wahoo. 14 ... life and work on this blog. 15/01/2025 2:22 in my attempts to "fix my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  MIT. there are some key differences in academics between MIT and here. firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the ... math classes or, as many math classes in the same semester. the other

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... mesmerized by the sudden change in scenery that nothing else could infiltrate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to really explore the fields that they are interested in ... . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... mysterious liquid and peppered with stray hairs. [annotation note="In retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... incoherent ideas floating around in my head – something about broken things ... 'knot again' in the very last week"]knotted strips.[/annotation] We would

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  in high school, though I think I prefer taking it now, when I'm more ... -Homeric civilization in Greece, before city-states, which was discovered by a German guy in the 1800s."]Mycenae[/annotation] as the original colonizer, how both

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... note="amazing feature, would recommend"]multiple inboxes[/annotation] in my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  moved in there was only a hexagonal frame in the courtyard, and by the next afternoon they’ve put pillars and more stuff in the hexagonal frame ...  three storeys high. Imagine that: three storeys. And the deadline was in a couple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018