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• Discover / The MIT education

  The first year

  During the first year at MIT, you will explore your interests by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and prepare for further undergraduate study. Academic exploration…
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  Global education

  A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work, and perform service around the world. As an MIT student, you can expect to have at least one international experience with…
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  Cross-registration

  In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the Institute, you can cross-register for no additional cost at Harvard, Wellesley, and MassArt. We believe that MIT students should…
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  Maker education

  MIT’s dozens of makerspaces, dedicated hands-on classes, and experiential programs give you training in modern means of manufacture: what has come to be called a “maker education.” Our motto The…
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  Undergraduate research

  One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) supports thousands of projects each year with 95% of MIT graduating seniors…
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  Independent Activities Period

  Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of regularly scheduled classes to do…whatever they want! Established in…
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  Majors & minors

  At MIT, majors are conventionally called courses, and they’re numbered rather than named; meanwhile, our credits are called units and they’re counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology…
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  General Institute Requirements

  General Institute Requirements (GIRs) are MIT’s core curriculum and foundation for the rest of your education. William Barton Rogers, MIT’s founding president, once wrote that “the abstract studies…of the philosopher…
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  MIT’s educational philosophy

  MIT believes the best education occurs when students are self-motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach. Our guiding principles…
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  Life after MIT

  As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life after MIT, as shown by the ~146,000 MIT alumni living around the world. Here are some of the…
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  Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

  At MIT, “hacks” are performed by students who safely and stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do…
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  Inventions & innovations

  For more than 150 years, the Institute has married teaching with engineering and scientific studies—and produced an unending stream of world-changing advancements. These innovations translate the novel discoveries of basic…
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  A brief history of MIT

  In 1865, the founding of MIT established a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America. Since then, MIT has built a robust tradition of solving…
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  Basic facts

  MIT’s primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To that end, we seek the best possible community of scholars…
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