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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog about public/private schools years ago that's still relevant today: On
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  students. MIT and its surrounding communities offer a broad array of ... , welcoming communities on campus willing to answer questions for current MIT ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well.
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  AMC–except that for those tests, a score of 70% (on a multiple choice ... best friends with my roommate, I’d be missing out on a core part of the ... didn’t miss out on a core part of the college experience because of it. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you ... excitement that went along with it. That also meant that on occasion it was nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  something you do for the pleasure of it." That question, on the MIT ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty ... ; some new ones will be added. We've hired some student "experts" on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  started, I was running on 5-6 hours of sleep a night -- the FPOP schedule ... 'm super excited for all of them. I'm holding off on taking some required ... . Theoretically, I had a weekend to work on all of it. But, that Thursday and Friday

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both ... many passion indicators - but I emphasize one of many. When I was on the ... thrive on challenge. Most of our admits have taken AP math and science

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  was the monkey that I was, 360ing on monkey bars and cartwheeling off of ... Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... thought that a non-negligible fraction of the money MIT spends may be on ... On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of

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

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... sets in. Your beard has grown on you (hurr hurr hurr), and the two of you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  barely capable of keeping track of what was going on. The tournament ran ... the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of ... textually accurate, they actually stole three days of break from us, but it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... honest, I had had no intention of going anywhere on Halloween, but the ... asking around for last-minute costume ideas, we settled on one of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption ... focus in again on a single major. One of MIT's great qualities is the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... to all the hype I have heard from every other person on the face of the ... found out that I was going to be lighting the candles on one of their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  numbers of COVID cases on their campus.) For various reasons, some perhaps ... 't wait to try working on some of them on the weekends and nights when I ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6.0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had wronged me. I took it freshman fall on Pass/No Record, and I passed. The

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020