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• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a ... admission is tough; with a 6% admit rate, it's especially true for transfer ... . Transfer admission is a small program at MIT. Transfer students, though, are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities: I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn ... : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely ... one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  MIT ignores them in its curriculum. And IAP is a wonderful time to keep ... decide who truly is the greatest lover of pancakes. Last Wednesday, a group ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... England's forests for a respite; a cabin in a place like Sunset Pond, a pen ... stargaze. In a similar way, the stars are as empowering and overwhelming as

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer ... -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and technology. Through recognition of architecture as a liberal discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... final project presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ... , and Joonho should be doing that in a few days (he got a press pass for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  application component, such as a transcript or teacher evaluation, now is a good ... application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the ... matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  have designated MIT at a score recipient, you are all set; there is no ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will ... application is not yet complete. Over the past month, we have received more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... done, so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, we'll be ... get us a missing piece is by fax. Our Records Office fax number is (617

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... . ’14 has titled “All Aboard the Rage Bus” and which a few days later is hopefully more funny than unhappy. Here it is: At a pit stop, the lady who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013