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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  year. PNR This is the simplest and most commonly known, so we'll start ... receive credit for a class by taking the final for that subject. Scores for ... you, though, because most of this is external factors (the average MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  : [Getting an education from MIT is like] eating the best pizza in the world ... ’s definitely bad for you but you love it anyway. —Adira B. ’21 This is the ... of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  group's senior class, as well as two stray juniors, which made for the ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the ... ). we also decided on having a rental car for four of the eight days we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the ... in the eye and basically tell them "I don't have enough time for you ... 've been coughing for the past three weeks and haven't looked into it even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in ... -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a story for another day. For now, here are three excerpts from conversations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... the title, this part of my orientation period was my favorite and for good reason. During the summer before move-in, MIT opens applications for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  accelerator? That’s okay, because the internet is a helpful thing!) (Don’t want ... It may seem far away now, but next year is just around the corner. Pay ... of the year and I wish you all the best, Fiona

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  application. We do not have minimum scores for the tests as scores are ... the application. For each examination, required subscores are indicated ... We require the SAT or the ACT from first year and transfer applicants
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  . For the most part, we’ll treat your questions like they were written in ... -handed, which has been… less than ideal for glassblowing at MIT. I play the bass ... have lived in the sorority house for three years) Product design and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you're the stupidest one there? MIT doesn't have ranks for this exact reason ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... With a record number of applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... around, maybe 13 out of 50 for the course 8 folks. I don't have any idea of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  , featuring the bloggable Mollie. For MIT students, they're remarkably happy ... band is pretty cool in itself. 7. The entire band shouting at a photographer for The Tech: "BRYAN HEAMON! ... Hi! ... Take our picture! ... Thank

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... the moon is a planet or not. me: well, the moon is a satellite of the ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  best part is at 5 minutes.) Also - obligatory doodle picture: This is Peter Reddien, seriously the boy-wonder of Course 7 (biology ... profs dress the same. Eric Lander is the exception - he always wore a blue

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  else? Balance patch in Boston is by far the best LAN cafe in the area ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... experience in industry. But I still had nothing going for me over the summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  people, I'm surrounded by MIT people. This is a good thing for many, many reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To ... figure out the chances. I am a sad, sad case. For the record: 1. I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... decided it was best to cook most of our time here. Despite the expense of ... see an ant crawling around the kitchen, but I am glad that it is normal

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  age, people feel a lot more tolerable. The world is a lot more colorful ... entity that allowed this, but it feels like, for the first time, I am whole ... 've been like this ever since, and the change is palpable. It's often quoted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022