FAQ / First-year application
How does the MIT admissions process work?
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FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful -
Blog / About Decisions
why i chose mit the paths not traveled
's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens, people would ask, Rona, why did you choose MIT if you're interested in the -
Blog / Announcements
MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET
,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... yourself and the people around you. We’re all in this thing together, and we -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator
Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to -
Blog / Athletics
My highest achievement at MIT.
Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26
realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in -
Blog / Advice
and i’d do it again differently
'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but -
Blog / Admissions
What’s the big deal about 40^2?
Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact -
Blog / Classes
contradictions too much, not enough
to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also -
Blog / MIT Life
sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)
responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are -
Blog / Extracurriculars
My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience
quickly tested. It started about 1am that night. I had been getting in and ... , there was a knock at my door. I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... comfortable coming and knocking on my door. Many of us Medlinks in East Campus -
Blog / Admissions
CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!
, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... doors in the infinite corridor until I found: After the chat group ... that all of the admissions officers were in the student center. We didn -
Blog / Hacks
Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…
Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state -
Blog / Uncategorized
things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten
on couches, bothering my roommates, and contemplating life in this pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... just the lighthearted nature of the show mixed in with a darker, deeper -
Blog / Academics & Research
To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year
It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the ... things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions -
Blog / Challenges
classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law
validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... 'm getting better at handling feelings around failure, and that in itself makes -
Blog / Challenges
The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out
the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... :("]few[/annotation] glaciers left in the park. All the blog posts I read -
Blog / Miscellaneous
a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018
kind of stuff but some algorithms are just bad. Not just bad in the sense ... inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like. ... ): Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by