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• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other non ... coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  % of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of ... The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of ... -night adventure in the MIT tunnels in which he surprisingly relied on a lot of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... , both East Coast rappers who call New York City home. You may know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... Internet based TOEFL? In order: Both are important (and required). / Not as

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through ... would look with that gold hoop, or that fake green diamond stud with that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... latest in this series, from Nishanth, who wrote me last night with one of the most successful instances of blog-based manifesting I've ever seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation ... about one of these events that we were involved with and the experience of going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you have registered, you will have a host. (More on this soon) Speaking of ... " (Stanford South?) preview weekend on the most recent episode of Veronica Mars

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  the University of Vermont). Quick disclaimer, this is not cause I was ... , MIT-MEET, and MISTI-UK. All of these were through MISTI, so they were ... and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016