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• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... -traditional pathways. You should choose an institution that will offer rigorous academic coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school. We understand that high schools have different offerings and families ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it isn't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that ... while you're at other events. Again, that's not to hide this aspect of MIT ... Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  offer a view of Mt. Hood. I was excited to go to Portland for a totally ... Croak.” At camp this year, Thu, another JC, had the brilliant idea of ... honors the holiday, but at Mathcamp, we get out a bag of jumbo marshmallows

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went ... bilingual, I was envious of the linguistic capabilities of the students at ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  . "Wait...you mean...there are things I'm good at?" After 3 years of MIT, I know there are lots of things I'm not good at. Like differential ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots ... Thursday at a dinner with MIT's Undergraduate Women in Physics, of which I am ... faculty members outside of class while scoring free dinners at top

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  . We then crossed some checkpoints and arrived at the base of Sakiya, the ... ; Near the end of the week, we spent an evening at a home of a local artist ... , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  (after having let us have a crack at it first) of the same documents that ... her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  one of us answered. One day, at the end of class, he told me that the ... to Preston’s note. * * * Much of First Light takes place at Caltech ... (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... -term health of modern astrophysics from having cultivated public support at its ... fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  for another dinner afterwards at one of my favorite restaurants ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the sacrifice. By some stroke of luck, I found a large cookie platter at ... both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  I've realized that at this point I've pretty much conveyed this type of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I ... attempts at not getting buried under mountains of work. Sometimes I fail, but

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  class at Harvard, in the Graduate School of Education (all Harvard ... ). At the end of the day, I was glad to call MIT my home (as I prefer MIT ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used ... at - the little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and ... Sunday. One would think I'd be efficient at it by now, but I'm still

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... of a ceramic plasma coating implement that operates at 10,000 K with a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... blogger training: The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  reading this post will end up at other colleges next year. If you are one of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005