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• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... school official at your school may submit your high school transcript ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their ... to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  , and they sit in a large, unkempt stack at the bottom of my closet that ... front of a group of dead-in-the-eyes peers in the gym at lunches. And ... itself was nice. We got yelled at for trying to go on the roof of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  viewer through selective editing of visuals and sound (at least according ... Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  set up of steel ducks that get knocked down if you shoot them (like at ... Each year of elementary school, in late November, one could walk into any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  putting it up got rid of the only thing that made me bearable to look at ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... first weekend of August. In the meantime, I've somehow taken over 138 GB of photos this year, and I've been slowly going through all my pics and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... it presented a lot of material, but at the same time left a lot of room

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT without them. *At no point in time were we in danger of starving to death ... California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It ... the course of the year in the Infinite Corridor basement, each pumpkin created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you know, most of my career has been essentially doing "web stuff", including ... job as an assistant director of talented outreach, overseeing our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  being totally captivated. At the end of the performance, Jamie Bernstein ... told me that I should meet Ashley at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The theater ... , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  magical power of mailing lists (how everything gets done at MIT) a ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns ... other interns…as well the quirky side of Beijing. A few days ago, an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Wellesley MA rest ... fridge at his dad's house (yum, delicious). While this mountain dew

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... of Student Life Benedict and Dean of Undergraduate Education Hastings

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005