FAQ / Life and culture
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MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
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FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT offer conditional admissions?
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FAQ / Life and culture
Is there an International Student Association/Community?
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What’s the MIT motto?
MIT's motto, mens et manus, translates from Latin to mind and hand. This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application. -
FAQ / Testing
What tests do I have to take?
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FAQ / First-year application
How do I list standardized test results?
If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not ... . Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we -
FAQ / Transfer
Does MIT require standardized tests for transfer applicants?
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FAQ / Afford
How do I contact Student Financial Services?
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Blog / MIT Life
being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway
blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have infiltrated the rain, and people have replaced tshirts with puffer jackets. It ... lessons that everyone from snow-heavy towns learned: wear gloves and scarves -
Blog / Personal Projects
Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland
It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... , cereal, and toast, and the little plastic squares of jam that remind me of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them
rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to ... ’ve spent my fair share of time on Tumblr as a teen, and I went through a dark ... intrigue, mysticism, and references to the classics. Is it a little corny -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9
Last summer, Kidist and I wrote about our experience with Infinite Magazine, MIT's fashion and design publication. Since then, little has changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still the editorial director, and -
Blog / Uncategorized
field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others
housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room, where it bloomed fragrantly, like jasmine, and grew bright yellow lemons I ... another one, and a monstera and a fiddle leaf fig and bamboo and some -
Blog / Personal Travel
i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no
courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... engineering type things. i just thought i'd help out with writing and administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing -
Blog / CPW
Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!
'm actually getting a paycheck and have health insurance. Difference 2 - I am in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... 's brand new and we love it! We've been in it for about three weeks. There -
Blog / Academics & Research
keeping interest a list of things i think are cool
with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS (Course 6-2) and Media Studies (CMS). Prior to coming to MIT, I swore I ... in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return -
Blog / How to MIT
A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS
, because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college ... hang out, do their psets, and meet other people in their course. A few ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a -
Blog / Classes
just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon
ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free ... thursday, and damn am i ready to be home"]my flight home ... i do, tentative lines from a poem pop into my head. and a few more -
Blog / Classes
Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess
update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the ... (6.009) UROP And it's a struggle! Real analysis is still kicking my ... me fairly well. But why? Because I actually changed and improved myself -
Blog / Life after MIT
One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?
one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2 ... ) promising me that our kids could go to MIT, so I am just going to go ahead and