FAQ / First-year application
How much is the application fee?
one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... negative impact on your chances of admission.
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FAQ / Life and culture
Is there a medical facility on campus?
MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical -
FAQ / Life and culture
How did the blogs get started?
Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have -
FAQ / First-year application
When are decisions announced?
of decisions. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of -
Blog / Events
This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)
🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very -
Blog / Residential Life
[guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017
in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
, or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.
distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when -
Blog / Events
Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner
note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to -
Blog / MIT Life
What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt
.[/annotation] That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)
-illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It ... hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of -
Blog / Academics & Research
back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing
[/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom -
Blog / Community Projects
[Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen
the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine
Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting -
Blog / How to Human
love languages in the little things
Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation ... . Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year -
Blog / Challenges
The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)
later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of -
Blog / How to Human
the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?
, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real -
Blog / About Decisions
Waiting always waiting
as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can