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• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... improves our ability to predict subsequent student success at MIT. When we ... preparation; when we don’t, we have to look (even) harder at other factors, such

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and ... talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  , you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your ... ten minutes, I sort of just stared at the wall and let tears fall ... better at writing essays and then each one of these will never disappoint

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky Kusko, an alumna of MIT's undergraduate program now studying at Boston ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... that because first, i don't feel bad right now. like, at all, i guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  based on your previous exposure, what kind of knowledge you are best at ... MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  everything else. at the same time, i was friends with a lot of these people, so ... dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston ... 's blogs that overanalyze the heck out of everything."]contemplate anything

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  of buildings around campus, MIT would rather have pipes and wires and ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... else they were very good at bluffing). They had us go up in groups of ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  engineering seniors at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Later this ... Since you're all probably sick of hearing about my summer, I emailed ... out of the ~20 cheerleaders on the squad. I think I'll just list what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  First things first: there was another home football game today -- at which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of ... one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the excitement last year: a few members of MIT's Musical Theatre Guild decided that ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... experienced person there!” ...all of the interns were Ph.D students. “Rachel, are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  chance to go to the opening of the special exhibit at the MIT Museum. They have ten themes that display every aspect of life here. I was shocked at ...   Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  and myself. So my first semester at MIT, I spent a lot of time figuring ... Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of ... not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Mediterranean. We also got to play in a jungle gym at the top of the hill, but I ... than I am at MIT, and Bob Barker could die and I wouldn't even know about ... fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching ... -class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of ... thing about MIT is that about 90% of the student body really has no idea

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... participate in the arts community at MIT, you may send in slides of your work ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005