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• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The ... , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... the opportunities available to them at their current or most recent
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  250 word limit for a reason. You CANNOT use the FUN form to submit new ... the FUN form to tell us a joke. :) What if I submit by FUN form and ... edu with the new update Anything else I need to do?????? B R E A T H E

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded ... :45 last night warning me to stay inside, I couldn't really process what was going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those ... to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  various fraternity brothers coming to serenade you as a musically delightful ... . Weekend 5 Fun fact: I am a dancing machine. Does MIT offer outlets to my ... several colleges nearby hosted a cruise to unify school cultures into a heap

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1.909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early ... having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  hosted a community picnic to celebrate The Howard Dining Hall, which is on ... . The picnic was outside, with all-you-care-to-eat sandwiches and a whole ... I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  it's Google, it very well might be. Now I'm off on a bus to Aix ... I just got done with uploading way, way too much blog to the other blog that MIT pays me to write. So you should go over and read that now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He was a Digital Effects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... Chiara Coletti, a vice president. Hmm... it will be interesting to see how ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm ... farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... have to work for them. This observation was prompted by the fact that

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  look forward to. This September, I’ll be beginning a Masters of Science ... On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what was literally and – perhaps more importantly – figuratively a one

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  admission to January 3. The freshman application can be submitted through My ... to submit your deadline. If your application is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note ... to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of ... "), which has been a really cool way to explore how satellites work at my own

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019