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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is ... first name. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... little support! For those of you unfamiliar, Crew is sort of a big deal ... fast. Crew at MIT is one of the largest sports, and our only Division 1

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  you to some of my friends, and to the hall on which I'm temporarily ... kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a ... questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks ... 'd keep and what you'd change. I'd also love to know what you feel is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... mask? The truth is, I’m not sure. Which isn’t so much to say that I don ... this, I’ll be in Moscow, stopping over for a few days on my way to one of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  weird at first, not being able to perform for them on stage. we kind of ... some scenes, and then sending it to this mysterious council of evaluators ... had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  singer of the band Letter to Cleo, which provided the soundtrack for (among ... on by the Charles Hotel here in Cambridge. Their plan is to turn ... So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to ... , which can be hard to do by yourself for piercings not on the earlobe ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it ... !!] League of Legends - okay this is much more intense than the rest but I ... , kind of similar to animal crossing but with many more features

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... wonderfully nerdy mom or girl that you need to impress. I think this one is

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  't seen much snow until coming to MIT. Nemo is by far the most amount of ... on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me ... bunch of really nice pictures and want people to see them, tbh) MIT seems ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't actually that easy to lose getting into routines is hard falling out of ... california is a beautiful state i have a strong fear of having to decide what ... curve on blender is too damn high sometimes its easier to write code

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  was snark on "omg this sucks" or "it's 2 am and this problem set is ... oftentimes, an equation or the appropriate engineering assumption is going to ... education has prepared me to obviously take these challenges on, a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... be rational and still choose to place value on emotion. the problem is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon ... Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... financial aid to students who are not US citizens or permanent residents. As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006