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Welcome to MIT Admissions.

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

🙈 EA decisions will be posted on Saturday, December 15, at 12:15 PM ET.
✅ The first-year application is available in MyMIT.
🗓️ The Regular Action deadline is January 1.
🚨 What to do if your application is disrupted by a natural disaster or other crisis.

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Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!
- by Chris Peterson SM '13
- December 10, 2018
Watch the webcast on Facebook here. 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In 2.009,… Read More
Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)
- by DJ Rock
- December 8, 2018
Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an Information Session about MIT. Afterwards, I was visiting some teachers when I walked into my former chemistry teacher’s office (he was now the principal which made me feel incredibly old). As soon as he saw me, he shouted,… Read More
A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths
- by Afeefah K. '21
- December 7, 2018
For most of the semester, I’ve lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith, constantly drawing and… Read More
MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET
- by Chris Peterson SM '13
- December 6, 2018
I’ve stopped watching this duck being luxuriously vacuumed long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET. To check your decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your… Read More
Seven Early Evenings it was a good week
- by Kathleen E. '22
- December 3, 2018
There’s a lot that happens after 5PM. 1 // Sunday coming home I visited home last week over Thanksgiving Break. Boston is amazing, but there are some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at… Read More

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#Chroma magazine

#dining

#MacGregor House

#Vietnamese Student Association
4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right
- by Kevin S. '19
- December 2, 2018
TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut – nocturne in c minor – Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Highlights from my schedule for the past 3 weeks. Each year, fall semester seems to pass by much quicker. Maybe coming off of summer vacation, we’re still riding on a high,… Read More

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#3 more weeks to go

#almost there

#everything is going to be all right

#just breathe

#me time

#self-care
How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…
- by Chris Peterson SM '13
- December 1, 2018
First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we’re still heads-down reading applications and meeting in committee. No final decisions for Early Action have been made. We’ll release the decision date once we know it; we’ll likely make that announcement on the blogs late next week, so stay… Read More

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Toy product design at MIT

In 2.00b, Toy Product Design, first-year students have fun getting hands-on engineering and product design experience while developing a prototype for a new toy.

New MIT music building

MIT's music program will have a new central home on campus, next to Kresge Auditorium! Made possible by a generous gift, a state-of-the-art facility will be built to include a performance lab and recording studio as well as dedicated rehearsal and student practice rooms.

A NEET approach to engineering education

A new hands-on, project-based curriculum called New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) gives students the skills and confidence to bring new ideas into reality through interdisciplinary teamwork.

3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)
- by Shuli J. '22
- November 27, 2018
At MIT, every student has an advisor — in fact, throughout their time here, every student will have multiple advisors! It starts in freshman year with our first-year advisors; once you declare your major, you get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like that at… Read More

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#advising

#metalsmithing
d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes
- by Abby H. '20
- November 27, 2018
tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for many hours and in one more hour (it’s midnight rn) I will drive to Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all… Read More

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#drop date

#Thanksgiving
Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
- by Kathleen E. '22
- November 24, 2018
(Credit: Drone footage by Matt Carney, taken from Henry DaCosta’s 2016 Senior Video.) Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn’t have predicted. I spent this past summer reflecting on… Read More

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#High School
Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it
- by Chris Peterson SM '13
- November 21, 2018
Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex containers on my counter. On the left was slow-cooked chicken thighs; on the right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right,… Read More
Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing
- by Shuli J. '22
- November 17, 2018
You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year, one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. ’20, and I decided to do “poemtober,” where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We’re both… Read More

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##Poetry

#inktober

#writing
musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight
- by Shuli J. '22
- November 13, 2018
Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes?… Read More