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Announcements and deadlines

🗓️ First-year applicants: If you indicated on the February Updates & Notes Form that your semester/trimester grades were not yet available, you will see a new form called the Midyear Grade Report in your checklist in the portal. Once you receive your latest grades, please complete the form no later than March 5.
🗓️ Transfer applicants: Before you start an application in the portal, please review the eligibility requirements. The transfer application deadline for fall entry is March 17.
✅ Learn more on how to apply for financial aid.

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small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia
- by Kanokwan T. '25
- February 17, 2025
Every IAP, I travel. I can’t help it. There’s this wanderlust gremlin in me that’s always eager to experience new places. Access to global experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn’t have access to them growing up. I dreamt of seeing… Read More

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#GTL (Global Teaching Labs)

#IAP

#misti

#Solar Energy

#travel
how i got recruited to play d3 soccer at mit the college sports recruiting process
- by Emiko P. '25
- February 16, 2025
The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while definitely intimidating and tiring at times, ended up being a great decision for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s… Read More
Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…
- by Andi Q. '25
- February 16, 2025
Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could bring them back home after graduation. She was very excited about them, telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100% pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was… Read More
notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education
- by Aiden H. '28
- February 15, 2025
New month, new classes, new semester, yet still my cramping hand sitting across MIT’s campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes during lecture. I’m taking three technicals this semester, and if there’s one thing they all have in common, it’s that they’re gonna make you WRITE. 5.12 –… Read More

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#I forget to charge my Apple Pencil at night so every class is a race against the clock

#Notability is too expensive
Electrical Engineering V-Day Doodles are you feeling the spark?
- by Anika H. '26
- February 14, 2025
[guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog
- by Fiona L. '27
- February 13, 2025
This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. ’27, one of the first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite “homegrown massachusettsian”. (shoutout DEAPS ’23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing… Read More
UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important
- by Aiden H. '28
- February 11, 2025
It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no path to nor desire for avoidance. I’ve started doing research.⁠18 At apparently one of the worst times in American history to… Read More

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#6-7

#makebiobratagain

Bringing hands-on STEM activities to all

Yari Golden-Castaño, engineer and aspiring astronaut, speaks on her evolving commitment to educational outreach through her work with the Lincoln Laboratory and the Girls' Innovation Research Laboratory (G.I.R.L.). G.I.R.L. encourages students (you don't have to be a girl!) to develop technologies that help communities and to empower them with the skills and confidence to pursue STEM.

Online learning opportunities

Shreya Mogulothu '26 shares how taking an MITx online class as a high school student opened her eyes to new possibilities—including applying to MIT.

Free SAT bootcamp with Schoolhouse

Schoolhouse.world is a free online tutoring platform where you can get personalized support from a peer tutor. Join their small-group SAT Bootcamps, College Admission Workshops, and Math Learning Labs, or get extra homework help. If you're planning to take the SAT, sign up for one of Schoolhouse's free SAT Bootcamps.

SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…
- by Ellie F. '28
- February 10, 2025
The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a 39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the skills they need through a series of… Read More

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#astronomy

#High School

#Summer Programs

#Summer Science Program
clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…
- by Gloria Z. '26
- February 10, 2025
This IAP, I took pottery classes! Between class time, open studio, and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an… Read More
anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body
- by Fiona L. '27
- February 9, 2025
bones there would be no body without the bones. just how there would be no “college” without the hallmarks typically associated with the classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a diverse group of students smiling and laughing while sitting on a perfectly sunlit lawn under a tree. in my freshman… Read More

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#Art

#dorm life

#end of the semester

#failure

#freshman fall

#freshman year

#imissupnr

#makerspace

#making

#pnr

#semester recap

#travel
I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe
- by Emiko P. '25
- February 7, 2025
right before battle with my cheering squad + diabolical swim cap goggles combo the moment of truth. let’s see if i can swim 100 continuous meters… I CAN!! I PASSED WOOOO Now I can graduate!! Yay!!!!… Read More
I have senioritis
- by Jenny B. '25
- February 7, 2025
OH NO… Read More
It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist
- by Andi Q. '25
- February 7, 2025
I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math works out beautifully. And that no experimental evidence has ever disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors, LEDs, and other semiconductor devices – would not exist without… Read More

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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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From the community

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.

Student-athlete excellence Kristen Palmer '23 has been named a finalist for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year award.