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Here, you can explore MIT, learn how to apply, plan a visit, read the blogs, or get help from our staff.

By doing so, we hope you’ll learn more about MIT, but also about yourself.

Announcements and deadlines

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🗓️ The Regular Action deadline is January 1.
🗓️ The transfer application deadline for spring entry is November 15.
📝 We will not require either the SAT or the ACT from first-year or transfer applicants applying in the 2020–21 cycle. Read more here.

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MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester
- by Cami M. '23
- November 25, 2020
This semester, I joined CodeIt, a student-run organization at MIT where MIT students teach middle school girls and nonbinary students basic programming concepts through Scratch. The last four sessions are spent working on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of the program. The Application… Read More
socializing over zoom it's been rough
- by Masha G. '24
- November 24, 2020
Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the spring⁠03 like me! submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was… Read More

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#its fine actually

#just needed to get this out
A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far
- by Cami M. '23
- November 24, 2020
I’ve really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I’d do a quick recap of how the semester’s gone for me so far since I’ve wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8.021 As many of you know, I failed/dropped… Read More
a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver
- by Waly N. '24
- November 23, 2020
Col·lege ma·jors (noun) A term that invokes pain and, as compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to mind when I think about picking interesting courses and more broadly, a major. Read More
and i try to find my place
- by Cami M. '23
- November 23, 2020
A couple nights ago, I cried as Raymond asked me my deepest desires and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I’ve been struggling a lot in finding my place at MIT, at least academically. Read More
The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience
- by Nisha D. '21
- November 22, 2020
At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of things that I had done for the last time that I hadn’t realized. My last East Campus party had already passed. It was definitely the last time that I would enter some MIT buildings. And… Read More

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Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary
- by Amber V. '24
- November 21, 2020
Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I “did not want to write about books,” but she was wrong. I love books. They are necessary all the time but even more so now. Sometimes we have to dip into other worlds to make our way through this one. I used… Read More

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Latest from admissions

Bringing people together

Throughout his time at MIT, class president Kofi Blake '20 has worked to unite the community and encourage more diversity in STEM. Along with one day serving in a position of national space policy leadership, he aspires to make the aerospace engineering field more inclusive by serving as a mentor and role model.

Inspiring change

In a recent webcast conversation with the MIT community, activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis emphasized that activism can be practiced anywhere. “Whatever one is doing, wherever one happens to be situated, there are possibilities of contributing to struggles for equality and justice,” she said.

Breaking down language barriers

Tarjimly—an app built by MIT alums Aziz Alghunaim ’15, MEng ’15 and Atif Javed ’15—is connecting refugees with thousands of volunteer translators who collectively speak more than 120 languages.

Unwinding how i destress
- by Cami M. '23
- November 20, 2020
Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the Gamer Men I simp for. RESCIND So let’s… Read More
books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions
- by Kidist A. '22
- November 19, 2020
One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book, and I’ll probably read another… Read More
Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week
- by Afeefah K. '21
- November 18, 2020
It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end… Read More
sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days
- by Alan Z. '23
- November 18, 2020
I’ve been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord, and, for the most part, I have been managing everything⁠36 I promise that a post about how I’ve been… Read More

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#sunset

#this is kind of disorganized but so am i
Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons
- by Alex M. '21
- November 17, 2020
Since the end of August, I’ve been living on-campus in Simmons in a double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really means I have two desks. I’m taking two classes this semester with take-home labs (2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems and 16.851:… Read More
science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!
- by Paolo A. '21
- November 16, 2020
I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade, my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of… Read More

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#delegation

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#watching events happen is so exciting