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Announcements and deadlines

🗓️ First-year applicants: Regular Action decisions will be posted on Pi Day (3/14) at 6:28 PM ET. Read more here.
🗓️ 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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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
Open Thread: Admitted
- by Decisions
- March 14, 2025
YOU GOT IN!! Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional, cylindrical information for you soon. Read More
Open Thread: Waitlisted
- by Decisions
- March 14, 2025
A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can… Read More
Open Thread: Not Admitted
- by Decisions
- March 14, 2025
There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when you shoot for the moon, you miss, but that doesn’t discount the bravery it took to try. The comments on this post are… Read More
Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world
- by Uzay G. '26
- March 13, 2025
I like standing at the edge, stopping there and looking down at the valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do… Read More
Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.
- by Kayode D. '27
- March 13, 2025
[i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a significant impact on my mood. This week has been abnormally warm, up in the fifties, and… Read More
meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators
- by Ellie F. '28
- March 12, 2025
Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the tower it calls home. MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever… Read More

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#elevators

#ellie is simmonsposting

#Simmons Hall

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.

Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3
- by Fiona L. '27
- March 11, 2025
At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by MIT MINCE ⁠07 a cooking club that hosts pop-up restaurants around… Read More

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#food

#somanypictures
What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math
- by Emiko P. '25
- March 10, 2025
1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even though the class was three… Read More
moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning
- by Aiden H. '28
- March 10, 2025
I have never read any of Marie Kondo’s books, nor have I claimed to, but I feel like we’re connected on at least some minor spiritual level. Although it’s definitely some form of undiagnosed anxiety or minor mental health disorder I’ve always hated physical stuff. Even when I was a… Read More

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#fast fashion

#Paris fashion week

#stop giving me t-shirts
Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch
- by Anika H. '26
- March 8, 2025
IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it’s the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And every year, we celebrate this fact with a whole weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to… Read More
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
- by Jebby B. '25
- March 7, 2025
Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with the “nerd culture” that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to announce Regular Action decisions on Pi Day every year. But, what exactly does Pi Day look like at… Read More
Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe
- by Andi Q. '25
- March 6, 2025
I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I was able to see these phenomena with… Read More

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#maybe if humans were like pigeons we wouldn't suck so much

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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.

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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.