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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• 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 ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst
• 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 ... to our email list without any commitment to apply for admission.
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic ... must be sent to us from your school to verify your self
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So ... about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should be used to, and things hit you one after another. Last week, I had ... school anymore. Okay, so it's Columbus Day. Same thing, to non-Jewish me

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... ago who claimed to be from München. So he will probably comment again ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  was [annotation note="I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT's grad ... Christmas and it's okay to listen to Christmas music again, and SPOTIFY ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and ... consolation, so here are some poems that i like to go back to every now and then ... . light pollution should have taught me that hope demands hurt to be seen

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to ... students at MIT here.  Instead, I wanted to highlight just how quickly students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... to 18! There is really one more reason I wanted to talk about Splash

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the ... , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving the school enough flexibility to schedule everyone's exams so that none

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it ... formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky ... costumes, merriment, and, apparently, smashing things. You have to relieve ... random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013