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• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... required for entrance to universities in your country. We understand that many grades are not available until after decisions are made and ask that
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  information yet and I wanted to know before I decided." Anon, and everyone else ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs ... 't teach.) Many of MIT's teachers are truly excellent, some are good, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El ... semester across an ocean when MIT already offers the best engineering classes in the world. Plus, more and more summers are being reserved for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  by offering nice dinners, and I was actually looking forward to eating ... Boston University Theatre. The weather is still nice, and nope, I’m still ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and ... “Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Masters degree in Chemical and ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ;bottom-up” approach. Rather than creating a 3-D gel scaffold and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS ... unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an ... one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... . You need a steep temperature gradient (e.g. dry ice and a 400-degree

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  and solid-state physics. Taking 6.004 (computational structures) and 6 ... ’m a course 3 (materials science and engineering) major. Rightfully so, too – I’m taking 3.010 (structure of materials) and 3.019 (symbolic and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  secret with my UROPs, my archnemeses, and strangers in the Kavli Institute ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... speaker? FRANK: Yeah, I remember that. And I think there's something about

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  forget everything that's going on, and sometimes you're not even aware of ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other ... ): State Governor's Schools: deadlines & processes vary Awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... front of my ancient laptop narrowing down my list of unwatched movies and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to ... -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... Junot Diaz and I am going to get him to sign my book and holy moly I am

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9) What's next: Entering the Biological and Biomedical ... 9/Course 7/Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Living group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... state-supported childcare, and the numbers of women in the workforce are ... at my high school, so I joined my friend and only other female teammate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  time and effort on my creative writing degree; not 'art school' per se ... ners came and we discussed life, the universe, and everything. When I ... CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  and success of the Institute or things you find out you’re capable of ... Milton, however, stayed in Cameroon, and attended university there at the ... , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  visiting Florida State University with another family. We were sprawled on ... radio. It was drizzling. I parked facing the forest and turned my ... . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... different angles, and my  Single Variable Calculus class is no exception. I ... calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018