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• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The ... , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math and science courses. Ideal preparation includes—at the very least
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... times, all for trivial reasons, and I felt more and more incompetent with ... turn in a pset or three, but that’s what P/NR is for, and I stopped

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  I've received this link multiple times today (thanks Kevin and Susan ... academic futures for Alex Doonesbury: Should she go to Rennselaer, Cornell ... , rampant, ingenious, and impressively ruthless. An MIT student put up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  Spanish essay due tomorrow and 5.12 to study for, but I feel I must get this ... you visit. Increasingly, you get more and more offers for help in your ... admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for programs and apps for productivity, note-taking, security, and even music ... 've been using all the programs listed below for at least the past year and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  cook for my brother and I. Apart from one summer where I mastered only a ... , extracurriculars, and preparing for the [annotation note="Oh, how I hate to remember ... Simmons, where I relied on the mandatory meal plan for food, and, not

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  train, read some Neil Gaiman, and got off in Killarney. I fumbled for a map for a bit, realized my phone was at 33%, and well, you know the rest ... "]eduroam[/annotation] is giving me one bar. It actually loads search results and sends email

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  think it would be better for him to start at the bottom and work his way ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , somewhere between woman and girl, mother and child… It was on that day ... people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [/annotation] for [annotation note="Analysis and Manifolds"] 18.101,[/annotation] I ... : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of the semester am-I-right?”, then I will happily listen and give the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane, sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an ... boat; let's spend the dorm's money and take a trip out into the middle of nowhere!" And everybody else was all "Woohoo! Nowhere!" And so, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  recommended and which appears to be important for admissions. Would I, as a ... school, for example, there were no AP sciences, and, if memory serves, no ... like to know what you look for in an international student and things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  axioms exist, and, at the very least, what those axioms imply for the type ... bit of a follower. I accept that these rules exist for some reason and ... reasons for not breaking the Rule have been discussed time and time again in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Dan wrote: "I think creative writing and contemporary literature (1/2 ... and underpriviliged children and mentally impaired people) for a very ... officer wrote for my appreciation and sort of just explains what all I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced with fog and pine needles and ambition. Our final round would follow the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period ... (snack bar, a fridge of cold drinks, and plenty of machines for various hot ... , make meaningful contributions, and prepare for a demo all within just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020