FAQ / Transfer
Can I apply if I already have a degree?
MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
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FAQ / First-year application
Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs. Each department has its own -
FAQ / Academics and research
What is the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory?
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to -
FAQ / Life and culture
What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?
Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students -
FAQ / Life and culture
What are the residence halls/housing like?
More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first-year students. Housing differs across campus and we want each student to live where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence -
FAQ / Transfer
Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?
There is no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond the required application. For transfer applicants, we accept a maximum of two additional supplemental letters of recommendation from teachers -
FAQ / Transfer
Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?
MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students every ... many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed at least two terms of study with high academic -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2
of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of ... , and I talk about my favorite things of this year. [video width="1280 -
FAQ / Life and culture
What kind of student support services are available?
the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of ... and the holistic experience of students, especially undergraduates. S3 -
Blog / Admissions
On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.
Manhattan (NY, not Kansas). Additionally, I've visited high schools in Detroit -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell
top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death ... that must be paid for the passions of this earth -
Blog / Announcements
meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)
Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... of bloggers. This year,[annotation note="nice"]69[/annotation] people ... submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent -
Blog / How to MIT
A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS
tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has -
Blog / Residential Life
how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod
Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to snow, turning -
Blog / Admissions
MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969
appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The student activism of 1968-1969 — against the Vietnam War, against nuclear -
Blog / Community Projects
MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity
of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with STEM maker culture (although I’ve had plenty of immersion with the arts -
Blog / Challenges
Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.
This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome -
Blog / How to Human
Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss
After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?
it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its -
Blog / Academics & Research
FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.
On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs