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• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  important topic. I'm Not Nemo! wrote, "Here's a question about the "Swim Test". I understand that the swimming test involves swimming 4 lengths of a ... Beginning Swimming substitute for passing the Swim Test? Or would the non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November Scores

  

  To anyone who's been worrying about scores from November tests geting to us in time for EA selection, here's a bit of good news - we got 'em! They'll be loaded into the system tonight. Now stop worrying! ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests ... testing requirements here. I’m happy to announce our decision to discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  originally was hopeful enough to think I'd bring carry-on). The hardest thing ... . Sometimes I think if I had only those two things, the place and the people, I'd ... in the White Mountains. Supposedly, I'd signed up because I love hiking

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  [caption id="attachment_104243" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The 26 ... always makes me smile. [caption id="attachment_104251" align ... through the halls 😆 [caption id="attachment_104239" align

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  just an unfortunate accident. Still really sucked, though. [caption id ... test out my hunch on an office external display. Before I left, I ... resolved within the hour. Here's the recap email I sent out: [caption id

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  . Prior to that, I’d watched both movies enough times to chant every line ... back. It was a warm, encouraging smile, and wordlessly, it told me I’d be ... . I told myself I’d be fine. I went to decisions.mit.edu. There

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  more intense than I'd originally anticipated. While I knew that the class ... that I'd have oodles of time outside of class. Wrong! We're assigned ... test an individual's ability to recall important information, remain

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  that I'd never actually been down by the harbor or to the financial district of boston, and I'd only been down to chinatown and the downtown ... to pick up my sailing card at the pavilion. If I'd known it was so easy

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  (from http://askthebeaver.blogspot.com/) --Hey, baby; wanna test the 'k ... 's get together later to converge. --Hey, I'd like to sample your ... checked IDs and gave wristbands at the door. For some reason they thought it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... , and it is absolutely delicious. My dad made me promise that I'd make ... resist pie? Questions 1. Anonymous asked, Hi Mollie, about the swim test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  sensors and equipment during Mission 2. We also tested several sensors to ... the Assembly, Integration, and Testing team. In order to work with them ... dinner. I’d usually read a book (I was reading The Stormlight Archives

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  quality testing spaces to learn about what the other teams are working on ... , building a custom operating system, and other topics I’d read about or ... we will work together with Hardware and Apps to test the products we

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  from the first 8.01 physics test, thanking all the powers that be for ... your test. You also can’t just not study and expect a decent grade. By ... because I thought I’d be spending the rest of my night on the erg. On the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  Class (all with legal age and ID's as prerequisites of course). Also with ... • Take/practice for the Swim Test! – shhh... <size="1">I still haven’t taken the swim test (100 yards consecutively any stroke you prefer) that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010