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• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  interview if agreed upon with your EC. To help you prepare, here are some guidelines on what to expect from your interviewer. After you submit your ... application to contact you, so please monitor your inbox and respond promptly
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We realize our applicants are very committed to their schoolwork and with their ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application. Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of study that are substantively equivalent to corresponding MIT subjects. If your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." [caption id="attachment_49906" align ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... resulting mostly-unfiltered list of Things We Want You To Know When You Start ... chances of remembering them later. Take selfies with people as a way to get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  officers have tried to mix in healthy snack choices (radishes or carrots) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt the rest of the committee's ability to read without annoyance

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented ... science and engineering experiences to over 3,000 middle and high school
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  Texan mind could barely comprehend using anything but a car to get around the city when I first moved to Cambridge. Three years have passed since ... ,200 rides and 150 hours in the past 3 years, and I do not intend to slow down

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at ... [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  is mine. [annotation note="sometimes blogs take a long time to write ... ="Introduction to Machine Learning"]6.390[/annotation] on Wednesday… and 6 ... .  But let’s go a bit further back, to that Monday, the precipice of the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own ... blogging, nearly everything I wrote was about coffee. Literally to an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher ... decided to take the course that honestly was overbearing at times, and I even have decided to change my primary major from physics to mathematics

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... you ever wanted to know what someone was thinking when they met you ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  This Friday, August 10th, will mark three years to the day since I ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... privacy on networked social intermediaries. When I came to MIT Admissions, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... to ask you. What do I mean by “meaning”? Do I mean to ask what the ... life is? You can’t prioritize to determine whether you should answer it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008