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• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the courses offered in each department. You may receive credit for subjects of
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98, started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to send an official college transcript?

  application process will be recorded as "College Transcript" in our database. If ... entered as a supplemental document in your file. Enrolling first
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  school classes, a strong academic foundation in high school both improves ... Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I’m waiting for my green card?

  All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you ... resident status. If there's a change in citizenship status during the
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in ... activities on our What to do in high school page.
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs.   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  by train around 9:30. With two suitcases in tow— taking full advantage ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... few people were awake. People talked in low tones about physical

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... MIT. In Visual Arts @ MIT part 2, we described our niche interests in ... to learn and practice these things at MIT. Now, in this post we want

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... credits Urban Science for Public Good: Gender and Racial Equity in ... gender and race in urban computation? This course introduces students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the [annotation note="I think we're at about 320 now. Four singles were lost in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... ’ve spent the past fourteen days traveling back in time to the blissful years

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

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman ... about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my ... felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong ... stranger suddenly appears in my life and we fall in love and live a long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case ... reason to share otherwise, and little captions of what was happening in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017