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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?

  We have some important deadlines listed here, but please take a look ... deadline for Early Action is November 1. We accept test results from any test ... new test scores” link in the application portal. The deadline for
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  an institution is a little hard to explain. I'll give you this instead ... the piano as someone else pulled out a mahjong set. Mahjong is kind of ... of you in Boston, I highly recommend going. There's a student discount

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview deadline?

  There isn't a specific deadline for the interview. Students submit their application by November 1 for Early Action or January 6 for Regular Action. After you submit your application, you may be contacted by an
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  Special at Dial-A-Pizza (in Somerville), Walden Pond, the Public Garden, 80 ... for a reason to admit you. In other words, we don't connect with pieces ... time of my life in college (at a school that was ranked -YIKES- only #20

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  The new baby bloggers were introduced about a month ago, but I have one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she definitely doesn’t have a coherent point of view or an extensive blogging

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  would like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the ... hour. And voilà! Sanity restored, in the depths of a stormy week. ... About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  in The Matrix): (Click on either photo for a zoomed-in view) ... the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River (if you panned a bit more ... captures the Boston skyline from a different vantage point than Arya's photo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  : We have received 18,064 total applications, a 1% increase over last ... would instead include these updates in your Midyear Report. The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  in Cambridge and Boston is across the Charles River. Connecting the two is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a ... Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  write this (8:15am on April 19), one of the bombers is reportedly dead, and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  ; And finally, outside the President's office, a portrait:   With a note: "President Hockfield, We have waged infinite battles against our ruthless enemy known as term. But rest assured, victory is at hand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  A few quick things today: We have admitted 16 transfer students for ... 're waiting for a reply. Ditto on the comments/Questions Omnibus. It's still quite busy here!It is Finals Week for students at MIT. Good luck, everyone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past ... spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create a silly thread. I think we all need one. You've been warned: anything posted in this thread

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  -eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... is fewer than the 33,796 who applied last year, before we reinstated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Office followed, making for a fun Admissions Dance Party of sorts (which is just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... you actually attended MIT. In a way it makes me feel more like a real ... Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... challenged themselves in high school and have taken advantage of their opportunities. If you're using your resources in high school, you're going to