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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  pass/fail instead of with a letter grade, you can use the additional ... grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys! ... . Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the ... can truly ask them anything. If enough people attend, you will hear a ... you to attend them. If you’re an AdMITted Student: this spring’s event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  rather tricky. Try to see how many of these you can answer (without ... , but you can match these descriptions to their official titles here ... get together and have fun before the spring semester starts. Unlike

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  wasn't even an MIT student. (I also can't forget getting lost on the way ... visiting MIT (more on that in a sec), you'd probably find me poring over some ... Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  going, and someday you wake up and look around and hopefully know where ... course you might take when you can simply sway back and let the world astonish you with its color? An old woman told me that sometimes you can hold

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  Wow. The last few days have been absolutely insane. You see, once I ... finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my ... 't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  , so it doesn't feel like i'm "learning" anything. as you can see, the ... I'm up, you're drunk I wish I had no work today I wish I had no work today Still trapped, from night's bath You wish I had no work today You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  always be something that you can improve, but as long as you don’t let it bring you down, things can turn out pretty darn good anyway. Our rocket ... miles in training, so you can for sure do it now on race day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  notoriously tight. And, if you get here early, you can roam around and check ... departments, labs, food establishments, and more. You can visit the Admissions ... "real" students that you can chat with and from whom you can find out the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  Isaac's family, we went to an authentic Texan all-you-can-eat barbecue ... Kappa Sigma (aka Skullhouse) has a tradition where the senior class goes ... down the terminal hallway to my gate, where I saw that no one was there

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

    dimension: time, in the form of video frames. You can do fancier things like ... , where you know how your animation is going to look at the major turning points. Straight ahead animation is when you see where the animation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  .   As most of you probably know, we have long sent our admitted ... can carry anything at all, seriously carrier pigeons are The Worst ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  anyone can reach without a latter. Some are old and crumbly, but many are ... . [carousel image1="66745" image2="66753" /] Next I went to lab, where I went ... my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not even realize how strikingly different it is from what you consider normal ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  relationships both platonic and romantic. It is the kind of frankness you can ... end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT? Well, of course, you leave MIT! part 1: acquiring sustenance [caption id

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  understanding. "....", my thoughts are with you. Please send email if I can help. ... away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm getting to a point where I'm content with the amount of effort I'm doing ... from getting wound up. But now I find myself almost fully unwound. My ... between urgent reminders to please for god's sake do your psets you dirty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own ... something warm to drink, to which [annotation note="Omar if you are reading ... tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023