FAQ / Life and culture
What are the housing/dining options?
in on-campus residence halls. You can read more about housing on our ... access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook
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FAQ / Life and culture
Can I play football at MIT?
The 2014 Engineers were the winningest (real word!) MIT football team ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first -
FAQ / First-year application
What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?
Early Action/Regular Action isn't a big decision at MIT. There's no difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non-binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I don’t have a school counselor?
“School Counselor / Secondary School Report” type in the “Recommendations ... School Report (SSR) form, in which they should upload the required official -
FAQ / Transfer
What does MIT consider for transfer admission?
, competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science -
FAQ / First-year application
Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?
available in your application portal in late January and should be completed -
Blog / Admissions
MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard
try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left, just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... , and they will all look soft and warm and inviting in the same way the -
Blog / Uncategorized
gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave
Last Friday in my [annotation note = "my first-year humanities ... ’ll provide an excerpt of that excerpt here, where, in describing his outdoorsy ... who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to -
Blog / Featured Blogs
1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser
don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it was likely from remembering the one we had in my 7th grade science teacher's classroom), but I knew I wanted one in my dorm. After doing a -
Blog / How to Human
hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger
quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes -
Blog / Classes
plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762
’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read ... ’ve never really written poetry beyond the flowery text in my zine comics, so ... out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me
year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before, jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... available. I waited in line for 20 minutes. Normally, irritation would itch -
Blog / How to Human
you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense
me. I started watching it with my high school boyfriend in junior year ... perhaps every character, big and small, strange and weird, has some good in ... season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person -
Blog / Challenges
insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense
that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it? there are rules ... intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp
(mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... 't even a joke it's the MathCounts Plank Tournament in the Next House ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge -
Blog / People & Identities
butterfly season the very tired caterpillar
In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in -
Blog / How to Food
rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill
't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess
's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year -
Blog / MIT Life
fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things
I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... 's filled with. MIT, in my experience, has been filled with essays and exams ... that barely matters in the broad scope of life. But they're fun details -
Blog / Classes
hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)
It's that point in the semester when days and weeks blur together in ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... , and[annotation note="Those of us in cold climates, anyway. The rest of