FAQ / First-year application
What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?
decision-making process.
MIT’s Early Action program is both nonbinding and
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FAQ / International applicants
What is the Secondary School Report?
The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U.S. school systems but may be adapted for international school use. Many international schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your -
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FAQ / First-year application
How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?
submitted through your school’s preferred system, such as Parchment, Naviance -
Blog / Uncategorized
2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025!!!!! ft. Veronica P. '27 and Taylor L. '29 !!!!!!!
across the nation! [My blog editor crashed 😭 😭, so go check out Taylor’s -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
have offered admission to 655. Consistent with MIT’s educational ... character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology ... we released their decision. We recognize it’s a lot of effort for -
Blog / Events
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC
Boys I've Loved Before: P.S. I Love You and I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE if people -
Blog / How to Human
It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game
Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills you’ll use. The MIT Career Development Center collects statistics on the number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting,… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
During first semester I published a nice little entry about my bookshelf in my personal blog. It’s now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone several renovations. What does the bookshelf… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.
consistent with gravitational wave theory. In the 1980s, for example, a Nobel -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title
It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS.100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out teacher evaluation forms and left the classroom.… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles
^ how not to do it. “Help! I’m from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place]. What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?” I’m glad you asked!… -
Blog / MIT Life
Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.
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Blog / Academics & Research
What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit
As some of you know, I got my master’s degree from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. While I was a graduate student, CMS merged with Writing to form CMS/W,… -
Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps
community’s tastes. If I’ve learned anything, tastes reveal much about ... looking to innovate, so keep an eye out for the debut of Phin’s Vietnamese egg coffee, “a rich, creamy drink that’s a true highlight of Vietnamese -
Blog / How to Human
how to meet curious people
similar people. Sorry, maybe that’s harsh, and it’s obviously a ... level. While I’m sure these clubs appeal to a large variety of people—it’s ... MIT’s big lecture halls, and has hundreds of students. It’s required in -
Blog / Events
LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue
enough to help with that first 35 mm film screening of Howl’s Moving Castle ... remembered to take some pictures this time. Without further ado, here’s a ... [/caption] Fun fact: Dolby Digital’s encoding algorithm is so good that they -
Blog / Miscellaneous
on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.
to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... realize how strange this phenomenon is because it’s just oddly important to ... else. I feel like there’s a similar kind of microjudgement that passes -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp
Hello hello! I am Alina S. (‘24). Briefly: I am a course 2A ... Olympics"]competitively solving math problems while planking…[/annotation] it’s ... paper, how they storyboard, stories of what it’s like to be a queer artist -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s ... any individual story that affects me at this point. Rather, it’s the system. It’s the fact that I can read an application from a wealthy Black