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• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to the SAT or ACT, 3 SAT IIs: one in math, one in science, and a third SAT ... science course being complete and fresh in your mind. And since you can take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In ... was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact ... homework, or psets, in MIT-speak. For any given pset, you likely won't be
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... without the communication interruptions. In my room on a cloudy Saturday

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  ? Well, there has been a lot happening, although in some ways very, very ... post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... everything in in one go. But! Like the Great Pumpkin rising from the pumpkin

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is ... set on a really amazing day in September, at Strand, one of my favorite ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took ... habit hasn’t died, but really it was a decision; I came in determined that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs.   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... heat pumps.  In the three weeks, I have mostly just snuggled and fed and ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  Hello! A lot has changed, but the friends and the vlogs remain. Doing this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www ... picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  by train around 9:30. With two suitcases in tow— taking full advantage ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and dear ones. We hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

    that doesn't mean I don't matter I'm no insignificant blip in the ... ; something in which the only constant is change because time marches forward

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... few people were awake. People talked in low tones about physical

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high-school students interested in pursuing singing in the future, and the choir director ... members in the area to fill in for vocal parts that are underrepresented

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  ; the exhaustion in the undergraduate community has been palpable since ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021