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5 Signs You’d Love MIT

Updated: Feb 22

Oomi Pammit is in MIT's Class of 2023.

Do you love to write, sing, dance, read, play video games, crochet, fold paper, think about art, or visit new places? Well, have I got a college for you! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology isn’t just for engineering -- it’s ranked #2 in arts and humanities worldwide.


Of course, there’s more to MIT than that. How about this: do you love to watch Numberphile, make chemicals go boom (think: thermite reaction), look through telescopes and microscopes, or read more about something you don’t understand? For example, do you know why oobleck is so… ooblecky? Do you have the urge to click that link or look up more details on its molecular structure?


Wait, what if you said yes to all of the above? With so many frontiers of knowledge, it makes sense to study the overlaps and intersections of very different fields if you don’t want to specialize in just one. MIT has you covered with the departments of Comparative Media Studies; Science, Technology, and Society; and Media Lab.


Regardless of which category your curiosity falls into, there are plenty of other indicators that might help you figure out whether you would be happy at MIT.


Look through these five points and ask yourself how much you agree with each one. See if you’d love being an MIT student!



You would entertain any ideas -- good or bad. For the sake of knowledge! How else could we know how much duct tape it takes to hold your friend to the wall?


IDEAS Challenge is just your typical opportunity to earn $15,000 for a socially impactful innovation idea.

Bad Ideas Weekend, on the other hand, can feature events such as: Butter Sculpting, Python Bee (the coding equivalent of a spelling bee), Pretend To Be A Harvard Student. Come up with your own bad ideas!! One traditional bad idea, the Green Building Challenge, is a competition between residential groups to climb and descend the stairs of an 18-story building as many times as you can.




You LOVE deep and mind-twisting conversations.


I’m talking paracosms, hypotheticals, the mortifying ordeal of being known, time travel paradoxes, game theory, philosophy, Grand Unified Theories, the definition of love, the famous 36 questions.


Everyone has impostor syndrome. However, whoever’s giving you impostor syndrome is probably also getting impostor syndrome from you. It’s an endless cycle broken only by inundating each other with compliments.


That said, you still love to take a chaotically fun break with your friends to some music.