FAQ / Academics and research
What’s the Deshpande Center?
the marketplace.
The center empowers some of MIT’s most talented ... technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of
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FAQ / Life and culture
Is there a medical facility on campus?
MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical -
FAQ / First-year application
When are decisions announced?
of decisions. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT prefer public school or private school?
MIT receives diverse and interesting applications from students in every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / Life and culture
What support is available for LBGTQ students?
MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ students. MIT and its surrounding communities offer a broad array of ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well. -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive 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 -
Blog / How to Human
*THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!
While some of you may be familiar with my roommate and I's sophomore ... year of roommate-ship, I combine the two blogs into one mega room ... people a new tour of the double, they joke that it's as if a chasm opened -
Blog / Blog Projects
I Made the MIT Admissions Blog TCG and YOU can get your own cards at CPW!!🃏🎴💳
This Project is supported by RealTalk@MIT. It is a part of a larger body of research from Cassie Lee at the MIT Media Lab in the Center for ... MIT Orientation Trading Card Game to be used again for the class of 2030 -
Blog / Athletics
MIT is a jock school the secret is out
famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the academic success, lurks an astounding amount of athletic success. Let me -
Blog / Miscellaneous
hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses
of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I ... it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I -
Blog / Announcements
FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin
: sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role — Director of ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
last concert
the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much ... years of my time in college of course 5 mics wasn’t enough, so we also -
Blog / Challenges
i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid
It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Purgatory My 2023 IAP
a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of -
Blog / Challenges
I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to
bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my -
Blog / Advice
falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe
climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees -
Blog / Advice
You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application
virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least ... guidance. While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow