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• Apply / First-year applicants

  Getting started

  the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need ... the end of your first year at MIT—there's a lot of time between now and ... data to predict anything even if we wanted to. Moral of the story

• Housing and residence life

  want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels ... that live in the residence hall!), along with Graduate Resident Tutors ... , collectively known as the FSILGs. About 37% of MIT's undergraduates are
• Apply / Parents and educators

  Advising your students

  ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with ... . We want students to challenge themselves appropriately in the areas
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Deadlines & requirements

  The application The first-year application is open in the MIT application portal. Please note: You’re only allowed to apply once per entry ... English proficiency exams for Regular Action applicants through the January

• Student life at MIT

  “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part of what makes life at MIT so vibrant.[/intro] The humans of MIT move ... know them yourself? Student perspectives Explore a day in the Life of MIT

• Online info sessions

  [intro]There are many ways to get to know us, right from the comfort of your own home![/intro] Join us for an online session Sign up to see ... peek from above Explore the MIT campus and the surrounding area with our
• Discover / The MIT education

  Majors & minors

  're counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology can be confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can learn through programs that are at the leading edge of their field
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  .[/intro] Over the past decade, we have seen a surge in homeschooled applicants ... , based on successful applicants we have admitted in the past. Initiative ... having taken initiative, showing an entrepreneurial spirit, and making the
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Biographical & personal information

  —including communicating with us and registering for standardized tests—so the email you list on your application should match the email that you used to create your ... option later in the application. Addresses We want to know your home
• Help / Contact

  Via phone

  Our phone number is 1.617.253.3400. That's it. That's the number you'd call, and we'll pick up as long as it's between 9AM and 4PM ET, Monday through Friday. This probably didn't need to be its own page, but now that
• Help / Contact

  Via mail

  sent online via the application itself. If you must mail application
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  world domination in integration bees. The successful MIT application ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are ... Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... . _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Optimal Procrastination Technique:  How to trick yourself into ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within books were my worlds, and the characters within those universes were my ... and spent hours daily daydreaming up new stories for the characters in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  engineering and science—still the dominant “majors” here. The discussion of the ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Domination! Up in the morning, ready to seize the day, watch your enemies ... Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013