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• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to ... cost, I recommend taking three SAT IIs in June. I encourage you to ... fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  are people whose work reflects the hopes that led to the prize in the ... concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in ... art and protest, and it challenges those of us in academia to use our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . Timeliness and preparation are the keys to success said no one in my family ... It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  regular action process. More on that in the weeks to come. Out of fairness ... in their applications to other great schools. Unfortunately, I suspect ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  available in your application portal in late January and should be completed ... completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your midyear grades to us. Students simply list their grades on the FUN Form
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go ... I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The ... waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist, and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• 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 / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the-nth, we are ready to mail decision letters tomorrow, and post decisions online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to ... am utterly in love with this building. Everything from its 90-foot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010