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How many Nobel Prize Laureates are affiliated with MIT?
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FAQ / Life and culture
What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field -
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Can you mail me materials internationally?
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FAQ / Transfer
Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?
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FAQ / Afford
What is need-blind admissions?
MIT's need-blind admissions process ensures that you will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of your financial need. Our admissions process is need-blind for all students, foreign and domestic. -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey
MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads ... , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls ... ) or crayons though, but with chalk. I blogged about some of the awesome -
Blog / MIT Life
Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat
with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and rearrange the modular furniture like giant Lego blocks. Perfection itself as a ... dorm, so you wouldn’t find any furry friends (besides Kaito, the Heads of -
Blog / How to Human
relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.
to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to ... friends learn drastically different than I do. They learn. They take the test. And even after the test, they still remember. When they run into a -
Blog / How to MIT
Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.
what I spend on has helped me get more value from the things I have ... me spend on the things that are actually important to me. --- Knowing ... would tell myself, "I don't spend that much" As the month started to end -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Application Now Available here we go!
You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. MIT has its own application – we are not on the Common ... interview. If you are applying for the November 1 Early Action (EA) deadline -
Blog / Admissions
Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT
Financial Aid and that’s great! Applications are handled through the ... applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few things: You can now track the status of your financial aid application by -
Blog / Events
Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!
the Materials Science FPOP known as DMSE, as well as continue to help with all the cool things going on in the East Campus Courtyard! There are ... they are frosh. This is called the conservation of frosh. Since they -
Blog / About Decisions
As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.
've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... -pi-day" posts with various thoughts, comments, and advice before the decisions go -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.
One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources ... students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also -
Blog / About Decisions
Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.
. What is the process for receiving my admissions decision? Receiving your ... :59pm, simply visit decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username ... will be available exclusively online. (Following the release of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.
Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early ... , parents, alums, and MIT staff so that the students could ask questions and ... free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It -
Blog / MIT Life
College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.
really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally ... the way April and I decided to pool our resources and invite Meara '09 -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Hosts
at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed