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• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... participating institutions for a set duration. For a list of member institutions
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility ... have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program ... the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our ... that meets 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. For more information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  years of the Institvte will offer. One thing's for certain: wherever I go ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very ... sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements ... . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was ... Miller, was out of town today, so the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Quantum Mechanics Sequence MIT is one of the few schools that offers three ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014