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Announcements and deadlines

🗓️ Transfer applicants: The transfer application for fall entry is closed in the portal. Applicants will be notified of admissions decisions in early May.
📨 First-year applicants: Regular Action decisions are available in the portal. Read more here.
✅ Learn more on how to apply for financial aid.

Latest from the bloggers

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emails to self & the long goodbye
- by Fatima A. '25
- March 27, 2025
what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i still have… Read More
Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎
- by Andi Q. '25
- March 26, 2025
I’m taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. The master at work. For those of you who don’t know, this is what a pony looks like: Isn’t she majestic? Ponies are… Read More

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#tysm Jeremy for helping me make these beautiful pictures of the ponies
Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program
- by Richard O. '28
- March 25, 2025
As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to the opportunities, resources, and culture on campus. In particular, programs like CPW and Ebony Affair helped me find friends and communities that I continue… Read More
BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…
- by Ellie F. '28
- March 22, 2025
Just over two weeks ago, we dropped our Pi Day announcement with Jebby’s Blood Moon Fest blog post. That night, my roommate Anoushka read the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite both of our busy schedules, we started scheming… Read More

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#Among Us

#BLOOD MOON

#Pi Day

#roommates

#silly things
one weekend in March a play-by-play
- by Kai V. '25
- March 22, 2025
I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond-brainstem activity, so instead, enjoy my weekend foray into lifestyle blogging. Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been feeling pretty stressed… Read More
“we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:
- by Allison E. '27
- March 22, 2025
When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I’m on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by my friend Siyi C. ‘26, a fellow winter enthusiast… Read More

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#briggs field is a winter wonderland

#shenanigans

#snow
reporting from… Philadelphia! 🔔 i tried a real philadelphia cheesesteak
- by Fiona L. '27
- March 21, 2025
Day 1 – 10/12 My plane ride to Philadelphia was about an hour long—I booked a flight with a budget airline that charged for every add on and cracked down on oversized luggage. My backpack, which served as my carry on item, was oversized, and didn’t fit in a measuring… Read More

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#long weekend

#philadelphia

#travel

MIT festival for the arts

Artfinity is a new Institute-wide festival featuring the work of artists from MIT and beyond. Taking place through May, the festival is a celebration of creativity and community with over 80 free performing and visual arts events, all open to the public.

Sports @ MIT

Excellence in sports and studies go hand in hand at MIT, and student-athletes are supported through a variety of facilities—including a recently improved Sports Performance Center.

New advising hub

The newly-designed hub for the MIT Undergraduate Advising Center, which offers individualized advising from first year to graduation, is slated to open in fall 2025.

concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store
- by Emiko P. '25
- March 21, 2025
The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years, the Student Center housed an MIT treasure: LaVerde’s, our beloved on-campus grocery store. 13 The earliest mention of LaVerde's I could find was… Read More
[Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'
- by Nicole Cooper
- March 20, 2025
Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly-In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our inaugural event. Last fall, we welcomed our first group of high school juniors specifically from… Read More
MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking
- by Aiden H. '28
- March 19, 2025
One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that people will always want to apply/commit, there isn’t as much of a need to wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts college, per se. We don’t need to spend… Read More
speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay
- by Gloria Z. '26
- March 18, 2025
This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT’s deep well of events: book talks, participatory activities, gallery openings, film screenings… the list goes on! SHASS⁠17 MIT School… Read More
ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- by Aiden H. '28
- March 17, 2025
HEAR YE HEAR YE ALL LADS, GINGERS, AND HONORARY BOSTONIANS, LORD HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK: It can’t be said I’m an early birdIt’s ten o’clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you sleep so well?… Read More

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#ive been working on my Irish accent for years please listen to it

#swinging Jesus

#watch love island UK
MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- by Chris Peterson SM '13
- March 14, 2025
MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to see your decision by clicking View… Read More

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From the community

Engineering joy Watch as MechE remembers the late Dr. Woodie Flowers who led the way for hands-on engineering education at MIT and spread the joy of designing and building things to students—not only on campus but around the world.

Robot research MIT AeroAstro associate professor Luca Carlone and his students in the SPARK Lab are working to expand a robot’s awareness of its environment in ways that approach human-level perception.

Blending coffee and science In class 3.000 (Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup), students explore coffee chemistry and what makes a good brew through hands-on experiments.

“The Whole Student Experience” The latest issue of Spectrum delves into what it means to educate the whole student at MIT.

Mind and hand Rhea Vedro, a technical instructor of metalsmithing, aims to transform the lives of her students through the art of making.

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch More than 2,000 handblown glass pumpkins are sold each fall to benefit the MIT Glass Lab.

Ride on! The MIT Bike Lab is a student-run bike shop that provides bike repair and maintenance services to the MIT community.

Reshaping the future of clothing manufacturing MIT's Fabric Innovation Hub aims to foster a community of experts in fibers and fabrics and build a network of knowledge that will revolutionize the textile industry.

Sky is no limit MIT alum Sheila Xu '14, who was born deaf, never imagined she could become a pilot, but says MIT put her on that path.

Log Log Land Tap along as the MIT Logarhythms debut their song, "Hall That Never Ends."

Advancing aquaculture Santiago B. '26 and Unyime U. '27 are working with MIT Sea Grant to develop image-recognition tools that will help aquaculture hatcheries monitor shellfish seed.

Life on Mars, together As part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station, two MIT students learn what it’s like to be a Martian during a Mars analog mission.

An unusual piano lesson Advanced piano tech offers new ways to engage with music and study live performance data.

The positive power of math MIT alum José Esparza Lozano ’19 is spending a year in Rwanda to help train its math olympiad team, with the aim of using math to bring positive changes to the community.

Recognition for sustainability work MIT’s Anna Kwon '24 and Nicole Doering '26 are the first undergraduate students to receive Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.

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Engineering joy Watch as MechE remembers the late Dr. Woodie Flowers who led the way for hands-on engineering education at MIT and spread the joy of designing and building things to students—not only on campus but around the world.

Robot research MIT AeroAstro associate professor Luca Carlone and his students in the SPARK Lab are working to expand a robot’s awareness of its environment in ways that approach human-level perception.

Blending coffee and science In class 3.000 (Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup), students explore coffee chemistry and what makes a good brew through hands-on experiments.

“The Whole Student Experience” The latest issue of Spectrum delves into what it means to educate the whole student at MIT.

Mind and hand Rhea Vedro, a technical instructor of metalsmithing, aims to transform the lives of her students through the art of making.

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch More than 2,000 handblown glass pumpkins are sold each fall to benefit the MIT Glass Lab.

Ride on! The MIT Bike Lab is a student-run bike shop that provides bike repair and maintenance services to the MIT community.

Reshaping the future of clothing manufacturing MIT's Fabric Innovation Hub aims to foster a community of experts in fibers and fabrics and build a network of knowledge that will revolutionize the textile industry.

Sky is no limit MIT alum Sheila Xu '14, who was born deaf, never imagined she could become a pilot, but says MIT put her on that path.

Log Log Land Tap along as the MIT Logarhythms debut their song, "Hall That Never Ends."

Advancing aquaculture Santiago B. '26 and Unyime U. '27 are working with MIT Sea Grant to develop image-recognition tools that will help aquaculture hatcheries monitor shellfish seed.

Life on Mars, together As part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station, two MIT students learn what it’s like to be a Martian during a Mars analog mission.

An unusual piano lesson Advanced piano tech offers new ways to engage with music and study live performance data.

The positive power of math MIT alum José Esparza Lozano ’19 is spending a year in Rwanda to help train its math olympiad team, with the aim of using math to bring positive changes to the community.

Recognition for sustainability work MIT’s Anna Kwon '24 and Nicole Doering '26 are the first undergraduate students to receive Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.