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Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can access it here. While the application is always new for first -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live
I’m writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can access it here. You can review the dates and deadlines for this year -
Blog / Announcements
We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle
, our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for ... outcome-driven and applicant-oriented: we don't value scores for their own sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for -
Blog / Announcements
We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well
office will again suspend our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for next year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... have SAT/ACT scores for a student, we can more confidently assess their -
FAQ / Transfer
Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?
At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit for calculus) and calculus-based physics. It’s rare that an applicant -
Blog / Class Projects
The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects
semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... this tutorial for making stress balls using slime and fishnets. The -
Blog / About Decisions
These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP
now for applicants to confirm their login ability and decision -
Blog / Announcements
We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT
diverse and talented group of students who are a good match for MIT's unique ... /ACT requirement for future admissions cycles. Our research shows standardized tests ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is -
Blog / Announcements
PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1
up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 -
FAQ / QuestBridge
Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?
email address that you used for your QuestBridge application. Do not ... , please allow 7–10 business days for this to be reflected on your Applicant ... for you. If you are selected as a QuestBridge Finalist, you will be able -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.
street is that this could mean a Nobel Prize for MIT's Prof. Alan Guth ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make the most -
Blog / Academics & Research
2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.
("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... history community about whether and for how long they actually met (an afternoon? a week?) but for some reason their partnership never took off -
Blog / Class Projects
Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions
(Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... time to watch them, you can read a PDF "pitch deck" for each product here -
Blog / Announcements
For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can
future, have some kind of plan for learning more about this interrelation ... maintenance for years (while laying off safety workers and awarding millions in ... Guatemala and Honduras. Meanwhile, workers advocating for a better wage may be -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach
astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... (yay!) as well as new friends. After my radio astro talk, I talked for -
Blog / Academics & Research
David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…
research endeavors. As an MIT undergrad, he worked for two and half years Ram ... the Boston skyline, it seems that life is good for Berry and he admits ... Institute “adheres to the purposes for which it was chartered and that -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for ... left for the Fest. As I walked down the Infinite Corridor, the 251-meter -
Blog / MIT Life
And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.
that you totally sound ready for 7.013. and I do have your jeans. And -
Blog / About Decisions
All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait
It’s okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can, please breathe, relax, and ground yourself. If the emotions become too much to handle, there’s no shame…