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• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  testing requirements FAQ. I hope it is helpful! Q. Do you prefer the SAT or ... 't English. What are my testing options? A. You have two options. You may do ... an international student, do I have to take the TOEFL? A. No, we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  't. 1. With whom do you interview? You'll interview with an MIT alum, otherwise known as an Educational Counselor (EC). 2. Where do you interview ... interview. 3. How do you schedule an interview? You will receive your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don ... crazy because I really like what I'm doing, and I like it when my hard ... body is whining about the mountains of work we have to do; some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  the fact that today's society pressures applicants into doing things ... activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... we do not make assumptions. Maybe it's because we believe so strongly

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  Allow me to combine Bryan's impressive video posting initiative with Sam's undeniable nerdiness and my own insatiable appetite to document ridiculous things my friends do. Here are two videos from freshman year that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer ... students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and while we're not doing any admitting over the summer, there is still a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  your institution, we will consider it a semester. We do not include any
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments, classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when traveling the corridor and note that pedestrian speed increases dramatically
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U.S. school systems but may be adapted for international school use. Many international schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... interested in, you can find a lot of people doing things around it. For me ... . But in doing so, I was losing out on a lot of depth. This semester I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  time to find myself. I've felt a certain kind of pressure to do something ... 't really know what I'm supposed to be doing at points in time or where I ... school, it's felt like I've been on a fixed trajectory. I do well in middle

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... ’t dislike physics at all (outside of doing badly on tests, I would say), so I ... through it. Right? If I really wanted to do this major, it should be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  . What are you doing in 21E? Like Danny and Allan, I am a 21E major with ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth ... minor in CMS, or double major in CS and CMS, or do a major in CS with only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  class, but I didn't. So it's okay. "How are you feeling about it?" What do ... it obviously bothers you." I guess that he's right. "Why do you tear up ... consequences? No, I do not want to play chess. "You have to get used to losing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  'll get through my to-do list with time to spare. ((Spoiler alert: I don ... work. It's a long process, with breaks in between each step; I'll do ... 'll usually tell myself I'm going to do the work for my classes that I thought I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the physics and math my friends are doing and my head plays radio noise -- a ... class I spent maybe 12 hours outside of class per week doing just to meet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled ... post about this before the end of the semester...i'm doing my best ... to be spending all my time doing"]working on my UROP[/annotation]. i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  describe what they did yesterday / what they're going to do today / what ... the same recitation!!"]alex y. '20.[/annotation] "hey alex, do you wanna ... for review on github." "...ok, be right back." "no!! don't do it!!" "too

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019