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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  ), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a ... admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2030 are now ... Action to the MIT Class of 2030, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered admission to 655. Consistent with MIT’s educational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Hello MIT Class of 2013! Here are some things that admitted students ... . Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  't know any seniors. This year, however, I knew tons of seniors, so there were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  applying to an art program rather than an institute of technology; the only ... , about two months ago. Because I’m a senior all but one of my finals were ... of his finals. If you would like to spread happiness with your every

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event ... effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and ... heating oil. Not only do you get rid of agricultural waste (without feeding ... of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?

  MITES Semester (formerly known as MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community, MOSTEC) is a six-month hybrid learning STEM and college preparation experience, free of charge, for rising high school seniors. The
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  International Science and Technology Initiatives). The FLC, which began this semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013. Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  be meetings in dozens of locales, including New York City, Dallas, San ... you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... Hello, MIT Class of 2016! Here are some things that admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... Hello, Class of 2012! There's lots of fun stuff now on your My ... hundreds of events listed on the schedule, from formal events like the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  motto of the Institute. People who don't understand the concept claim that ... Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... like any good MIT student, 10 days of that has driven me absolutely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Welcome to our new bloggers! introducing the baby bloggers of 2026

  

  will let readers be the judge of degree, as she blogs her way through the ... the Institute of Hacks, Pranks, and Tomfoolery, she realized she is ... -than-first-years —  because that is the number of '2027s we expect to see graduating (between

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ... While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010