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• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in additional materials does not by itself increase your chances of admission.
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... different parts of your application. On your MyMIT site, you will find the ... ), within a couple days of registering. You should contact your EC as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in ... application and what you can tell us in the essays. Think about why you are ... Admissions, the interview is an important part of the process. The interviews

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ) or crayons though, but with chalk. I blogged about some of the awesome ... living in Simmons! So here are some more pictures of awesome chalk murals ... , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• 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
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  some photos of the magic that I worked in my room. First, some before ... else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were ... As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... 's research, outlined in her project "Characterization of the Secreted Aspartic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... like "I am cat" and don't care about anything in the world. Anyway, we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• FAQ / Testing

  Will MIT accept December testing for Regular Action?

  You can report all tests taken through the end of December for Regular Action consideration. We will also accept English language ... submit new results, simply click the "Add new test scores" link in the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring ... lot more things to consider than I addressed in these few panels.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a ... activities midway of the San Francisco Bay Area. CAMBRIDGE FOLKS: I've got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week ... that in order to get the most out of my education, I was going to have to ... A couple of days ago, Snively wrote, "I have a theory that bloggers

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  grownup? I wondered if this was reminiscent of that time in middle school ... breath. The prick in my ear was followed by a moment of panic. I held my ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT blog and I'm in Switzerland. I could ramble philosophically about MIT life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I ... One seemingly minor, yet important, change I've noticed between

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty ... During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a ... . They posted photos of the envelopes in mail bins and I was monitoring Ben ... . It was very convenient -- I could engage in the singular activity of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005