FAQ / First-year application
How does the MIT admissions process work?
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FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students who complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and -
FAQ / First-year application
What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks
, but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches ... to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... ="Which has me in a financial chokehold"]Newbury Comics[/annotation], but I also -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Is This All? how do i live without regret?
there, either in your research lab or your car on your morning commute or in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been -
Blog / Classes
contradictions too much, not enough
to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel ... in a 70s band or something. it's just that the exams suck. i'm also -
Blog / Miscellaneous
[Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing
sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my ... they announced Arabic for English speakers. In doing so I found out that ... 1st within the Diamond League, essentially being the world’s best in -
Blog / MIT Life
sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)
responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them
that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... MIT”. In effect, this takes the form of organizing campus-wide social -
Blog / Admissions
Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.
theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the -
Blog / Extracurriculars
My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience
quickly tested. It started about 1am that night. I had been getting in and ... , there was a knock at my door. I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... comfortable coming and knocking on my door. Many of us Medlinks in East Campus -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart
'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be ... truly the smartest in my class. However, this past year has shown me that ... I should have gotten B's in several other classes as well, but I -
Blog / Admissions
CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!
, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... doors in the infinite corridor until I found: After the chat group ... that all of the admissions officers were in the student center. We didn -
Blog / Featured Blogs
College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!
what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... -shopping, as was Melis's list. If you're interested in finding out what you already have in your room, that list'll let you know: essentially, bed -
Blog / Hacks
Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…
Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state -
Blog / Class Projects
Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art
childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in Ethiopia like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network were dubbed in Arabic because ... Diaries💀💀 but I digress"]show.[/annotation] Meanwhile, sometime in June, my -
Blog / Personal Projects
things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more
I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting ... ~. In a way, it feels like a dream come true because I’m finally getting ... that the layers could represent time and differences could show change in -
Blog / Residential Life
whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)
...school. After all, Boston is full of treats, and how could I not indulge in ... : attaching a fun, new piece of media in every email sign-off. It was a joy ... , in full: hi ☀️ pika, 👁 happy august (can you believe it -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
[guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life
in this post is kinda uncomfortable lol"]cj.[/annotation] i soon came ... that i liked. time passes. i finally met cj in person in frosh spring, when mit let people live on campus again. this was back in covid times -
Blog / Uncategorized
things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten
on couches, bothering my roommates, and contemplating life in this pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... just the lighthearted nature of the show mixed in with a darker, deeper