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• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... period, devoting more time to each application, and 2) it provides

• MIT visits you

  [intro]Not everyone can take the time to come to MIT, so we do our best to come to you. We crisscross the U.S. as often as we can, so that ... sessions in locations big and small, urban and rural, coastal and mountainous
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  so we don’t really know how to do it). In other years at MIT, I would ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of ... try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Admissions statistics

  included in the tables below, despite their centrality to our process. The ... beyond the stats already contributed to the MIT's standard Common Data Set. Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not

• Clubs, activities, and athletics

  [intro]From puppies to pyrotechnics, MIT students organize hundreds ... to share that excitement with.[/intro] Student activities Sure, there ... Rhg[/embed]   Athletics Surprised to hear that MIT is home to the nation
• Discover / About MIT

  Basic facts

  relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are ... note='Source: MIT Facts']Campus[/annotation] 168 acres (0.68 km2) in
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  The transfer application

  test by the March test date. School Official Report: To be completed by ... . Remaining documents should be mailed to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... -200 Cambridge, MA 02139 Materials may also be emailed to [email protected]. Be
• Discover / Learn more

  Social media

  the latest research and news to the craziest hacks and campus events
• Discover / Learn more

  Other videos

  people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of
• Help / Contact

  Via phone

  Our phone number is 1.617.253.3400. That's it. That's the number you'd call, and we'll pick up as long as it's between 9AM and 4PM ET, Monday through Friday. This probably didn't need to be its own page, but now that
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  -mails get buried in overflowing inboxes; it happens to all of us. But listen ... in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... you're willing to learn, than it is to show off how much you already

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... realize how many people in my community still just don’t get it, and made ... live in a rape culture. If we are lucky enough to have never been raped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  campus to maintain a certain capacity. To give you an idea of how up in the ... discretion to include in the video. How do you connect individuals and keep ... . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  's telling about gender. getting to look at this painting up close in my room ... live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project ... . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... my parents' house in Canada. In September, I moved back to Boston to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... figure out how to organize all that information, or even determine the ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025