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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in ... students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... total of 120 possible points. Nearly 4,000 students sat for the exam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... of this social was to introduce the GEL students to their mentors, who

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  hitting two major cities of the East Coast.  Day 1 (3/24, Friday): Drive to ... feel like I've experienced both ends of activity levels: doing all the ... reaction. During the winter, I found out through the news that the Phantom of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... .   The cool water tower and some pictures of airplanes. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  degree (for example: I took Systems Biology, where a large focus of the ... ="Project Laboratory. one of the communication intensive offerings in the math department ... topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss ... -Jo the best of luck this weekend!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past ... the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1 ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million ... allows you to petition out of many basic courses into the more advanced

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  conscious life. I stumbled into the Green brothers’ corner of the internet ... first online community. As members of the Awesome Socks Club, my friends ... independent artists, delivered through the Good Store, and 100% of the proceeds

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  more than most people take here. Especially on top of being the ... many of you are in the same boat. It’s quite a humbling feeling; one I ... ’t do the work (any of my team members will tell you I could). I just didn

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  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 ... an AIDS Walk in Boston, and on the morning of the event, a bunch of us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy ... from last summer were more along the lines of “Woah, I can dispense water

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006