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Announcements and deadlines

📨 Early Action decisions will be posted on December 16 at 6:28 PM ET. Read more here.
🗓️ Our Regular Action deadline for first-year applications is January 5.
📨 Spring 2026 transfer decisions are available in the application portal.

Latest from the bloggers

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the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…
- by Allison E. '27
- December 13, 2025
It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for almost four hours, and there’s almost three inches on the ground. This can only mean one thing–IT’S TIME TO BUILD A SNOW FORT! Part 1: The Midnight Castle Step… Read More

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#snow
[Guest Post] 202.9 (slightly cursed) Tims from the Class of ‘29 by Joy X. '29
- by Ellie F. '28
- December 11, 2025
I was bored, so I made 202.9 Tim ideas suggested by the Class of ‘29 Discord Server! I was originally going to draw 2029 Tims for the class of 2029, but I ran out of time. Maybe that will come in the future. Anyway, enjoy–or shudder in fear;… Read More

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#tim beaver
MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...
- by Ceri R. '16
- December 9, 2025
I’m here today, accompanied by Tim’s very hardworking cousin, to announce that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released next Tuesday, 12/16/2025, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision on the 16th, visit… Read More
2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27
- by Taylor L. '29
- December 8, 2025
7:24 — HELLO WORLD AND WELCOME TO THE 2.009 LIVE BLOG!!!!!!!! This is Kayode, here with Veronica and Taylor, fellow Bloggers!! We’ll be writing about the showcase as it happens, so follow along! Like! Comment! Subscribe!! Follow along with the LIVE PRESENTATION at this link: https://www.009cycles.com/webcast “But wait, what even… Read More
2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025!!!!! ft. Veronica P. '27 and Taylor L. '29 !!!!!!!
- by Kayode D. '27
- December 8, 2025
7:24 — HELLO WORLD AND WELCOME TO THE 2.009 LIVE BLOG!!!!!!!! This is Kayode, here with Veronica and Taylor, fellow Bloggers!! We’ll be writing about the showcase as it happens, so follow along! Like! Comment! Subscribe!! Follow along with the LIVE PRESENTATION at this link: https://www.009cycles.com/webcast “But wait, what even… Read More
day in my life except it’s a live blog
- by Victor D. '27
- December 7, 2025
11:07-11:33 PM: i got distracted again. here’s what i did the past few hours: read a chapter from Orbital by Samantha Harvey which is the last book for my reading seminar (infrastructure systems in theory and practice). so far it’s incredibly beautiful but harsh (it’s about a crew of astronauts on the… Read More
passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo
- by Aiden H. '28
- December 7, 2025
I’m not typically one for year-end reflections or goals, mostly treating New Year’s Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly believe in what Lorde has said about how people don’t change day-to-day or… Read More

Hands-on learning in Boston’s farms

MIT's motto Mens et Manus, or Mind and Hand, comes to life in new courses like 4.182 (Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City). The course is funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), an initiative that supports human-centered, interdisciplinary projects that address the world’s most complex challenges.

Research impact through communication skills

MIT’s new oral communication studio gives students and researchers a place to develop, practice, and refine their presentation skills using tools such as real-time virtual audience feedback.

Small hometowns, big college towns, and shooting for the stars

Group of STARS students and staff standing together.

Sara N. '28 shares student cohort reflections from our second-ever Small-Town and Rural Students (STARS) Fly-In.

Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life
- by Jessica Z. '27
- December 3, 2025
Hello! It has been a really long time since I posted :’) My goal is to hopefully catch these blogs up to my current life, but instead of starting from the last time I blogged, I think I’ll start with where I am right now: Right now, I’m in my junior year,… Read More
Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2
- by Victor D. '27
- December 3, 2025
Student Profiles from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11) is a small, interdisciplinary major engaged in real-world issues. Since the posting of the last blog featuring DUSP⁠… Read More

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#dusp
Acception Therapy airplanes! airplanes airplanes
- by Ellie F. '28
- December 2, 2025
see: Rejection Therapy pilot had both a321neo (the actual plane) and a320 cards!! An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next shiny,,, An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next… Read More

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#airplanes

#i have an insatiable urge to collect trading cards and niche fun facts
39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture
- by Boheng C. '28
- December 2, 2025
last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things at MIT — its rubber ducks, its chalk, its residents’ chronically online doomscrolling — but first and foremost among them, its architecture: many of MIT’s buildings have their own quirks and eccentricities. none of them,… Read More

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#architecture

#Simmons Hall

#whimsy
A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston
- by Richard O. '28
- November 30, 2025
About a month ago, I left campus to take a little trip to Houston for this year’s Afrotech conference with MIT’s NSBE ⁠23 National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works… Read More
How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...
- by Kayode D. '27
- November 30, 2025
The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother comes into my room. My floor is strewn with cardboard, canvases, markers and felt, boxes and tiny army soldiers. I’m sitting at my desk which is covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am… Read More

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#i have an insatiable urge to collect trading cards and niche fun facts

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A beacon of light A lantern created in the Design Intelligence Lab creates sustainable alternatives for consumer electronics.

Recyclable EV batteries MIT researchers designed an electrolyte that can break apart at the end of a battery’s life, allowing for easier recycling of components.

Robotic probe Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels.

Integrated photonics Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable the previously unimaginable, like pocket-sized 3D printers.

Magnetic Breakthrough MIT physicists have observed a new form of magnetism that could offer a path to “spintronic” memory devices.

Art meets science Designed and built by Gloria Z. '26 and Lee L. '26, this calligraphy machine has a way with words.

An underwater robot with a mission Developed by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch is a maker project that provides an approachable path for middle and high school students to learn more about sensors, robotics, climate science, and more.

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.

Announcements and deadlines

Latest from the bloggers

the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

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[Guest Post] 202.9 (slightly cursed) Tims from the Class of ‘29 by Joy X. '29

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MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025!!!!! ft. Veronica P. '27 and Taylor L. '29 !!!!!!!

day in my life except it’s a live blog

passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

Hands-on learning in Boston’s farms

Research impact through communication skills

Small hometowns, big college towns, and shooting for the stars

Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

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Acception Therapy airplanes! airplanes airplanes

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39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

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A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

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From the community

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost The new design from MIT engineers could pump up many biohybrid builds.

Using physical phenomena to solve problems Marco Graffiedi, a doctoral student in nuclear science and engineering, is researching quenching processes to help cool nuclear cores.

A beacon of light A lantern created in the Design Intelligence Lab creates sustainable alternatives for consumer electronics.

Recyclable EV batteries MIT researchers designed an electrolyte that can break apart at the end of a battery’s life, allowing for easier recycling of components.

Robotic probe Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels.

Integrated photonics Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable the previously unimaginable, like pocket-sized 3D printers.

Magnetic Breakthrough MIT physicists have observed a new form of magnetism that could offer a path to “spintronic” memory devices.

Art meets science Designed and built by Gloria Z. '26 and Lee L. '26, this calligraphy machine has a way with words.

An underwater robot with a mission Developed by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch is a maker project that provides an approachable path for middle and high school students to learn more about sensors, robotics, climate science, and more.

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.

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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost The new design from MIT engineers could pump up many biohybrid builds.

Using physical phenomena to solve problems Marco Graffiedi, a doctoral student in nuclear science and engineering, is researching quenching processes to help cool nuclear cores.

A beacon of light A lantern created in the Design Intelligence Lab creates sustainable alternatives for consumer electronics.

Recyclable EV batteries MIT researchers designed an electrolyte that can break apart at the end of a battery’s life, allowing for easier recycling of components.

Robotic probe Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels.

Integrated photonics Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable the previously unimaginable, like pocket-sized 3D printers.

Magnetic Breakthrough MIT physicists have observed a new form of magnetism that could offer a path to “spintronic” memory devices.

Art meets science Designed and built by Gloria Z. '26 and Lee L. '26, this calligraphy machine has a way with words.

An underwater robot with a mission Developed by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch is a maker project that provides an approachable path for middle and high school students to learn more about sensors, robotics, climate science, and more.

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.