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How does MIT consider extracurriculars?
live or attend school. Don't be concerned about having a lot of extra
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FAQ / Life and culture
What kind of student support services are available?
're considering taking time away from the Institute, or you just don’t know who to -
FAQ / Life and culture
How many students play sports at MIT?
With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don't -
FAQ / Academics and research
What are Psets?
grade. We can't really describe psets at MIT—but our bloggers give it -
FAQ / First-year application
What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?
Early Action/Regular Action isn't a big decision at MIT. There's no difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non-binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either -
FAQ / Visit
How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?
. But don't feel like you have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for -
FAQ / Transfer
Does MIT offer transfer credit?
If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of study that are substantively equivalent to corresponding MIT subjects. If your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject -
Blog / Academics & Research
MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!
, why would you not go? If you haven't yet read either of Andi '25's ... my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... up cross country skiing with a coat over his formalwear, so I couldn’t -
Blog / MIT Life
(Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…
potatoes, stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce. However, as someone who doesn’t ... screwing up a $40 turkey when most people don’t like turkey anyways 😭 Part ... cancelled. Nevertheless, work never ceases, and our grocery run didn't begin -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square
mathematicians actually... do?" And it's not like I haven't had this question ... myself "surely mathematicians don't sit in their offices all day ... couldn't be the case. I just had no sense of what college-level maths -
Blog / How to Human
how to meet curious people
humanities. The meetings were boring, I didn’t particularly click with anybody ... (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... didn’t prove, and we were expected to use those theorems for rote -
Blog / Challenges
miserable and magical oh, to feel moved
sad? why is it that i don’t feel entitled to sorrow? the first ... choosing to be happy, even when things were going wrong. i didn’t want to be ... be cringe, and be myself, and care a little less about what i don’t (or -
Blog / Challenges
art and work i really struggled with titling this one
doesn’t just influence how i consume art; it also shapes how i create art ... music as the development of a few themes won’t be able to interpret ... rewarding if the company hadn’t gone viral, to which he immediately replied -
Blog / How to Human
My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok
perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t ... to introduce this, so I won’t mince words - my mental health was ... how badly I was struggling. Not that my friends didn’t notice (I like to -
Blog / Admissions
Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide
more of a conversation than an interview, so don’t stress out too much ... good idea to check your spam inbox to ensure it didn’t end up there by ... . What to expect Every interview will be different because there isn’t a -
Blog / Challenges
by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano
towers aren’t capable of popping all the bloons in one round, they ... without ever having to take your eyes off the music whereas, if you didn’t ... practice it turns out a bit of practice wasn’t enough to get me back to -
Blog / People & Identities
butterfly season the very tired caterpillar
sometimes it feels like I didn't. I moved to Minnesota the moment elementary ... ; . . . One year later, I was back, but this time I wasn't the only one ... countertops, switching the curtains... I returned to a house that wasn't a -
Blog / Summer
what i’m up to this summer doing all the things
research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... . I didn’t go to career fairs or recruiting sessions; I didn’t upload my ... engineer, you’re often working on one piece of the codebase and don’t have -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Homecoming some musings on memory
, even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be perfectly right, but it ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester
head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... limited, and we didn't want to lose our first priority because we likely wouldn't get into the dorm we wanted otherwise. it sucks. we all felt so