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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  At the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT, the Army, and industry partners work together to develop technologies that advance soldier protection and survivability capabilities. Team members collaborate on basic
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently rated among the best in the world. They include: Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that enrich and support undergraduate education at MIT, and serves as your first year headquarters as well as a resource during your undergraduate years
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not required to send your official scores as part of your application
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  school; MIT has all of my grades" option. The FUN Form includes an
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... : Early Move-In So it turns out Virginia is a fairly long drive from MIT ... good reason. During the summer before move-in, MIT opens applications for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... you admission to the MIT Class of 2024." My mom is shocked and confused

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... said, I went into MIT without a concrete idea of what exactly I was ... college life, particularly here at MIT. I’ve only been on campus for a a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice that will hopefully maybe possibly make your MIT life better.”  

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  -chasers, dispassionate hoop-jumpers, what have you. At MIT, while these people certainly ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... MIT’s big lecture halls, and has hundreds of students. It’s required in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This ... perfect opportunity to simply write more. Writing while at MIT has been ... , etc."] extra[/annotation] while at MIT, but it was still rather

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  baking animation was done on her MIT-issued iPad and was the first time she ... [/annotation] she's actually named after Ellen Swallow Richards, the first female MIT ... junior and currently serves as the president of MIT’s Music Production

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  colleges, but it felt like utter madness at MIT. People went fucking insane ... released, screenshots with rumors about the details of MIT’s potential ... full day at MIT, I woke up at 2 pm and spent a few hours packing. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  as I tell all my friends back home who don't know MIT lingo, Admitted Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and ... super excited, or kind of nervous, or maybe you've already comMITted and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  . Here at MIT, the date is significant for a different reason - it's the ... relationships during the first few months at MIT is the harm it could inflict on ... between upperclassmen and freshmen. I saw a recent MIT Confession that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  awesome people I hope never regret choosing MIT, or our hall. Although you ... people looking for jobz like me. Unfortunately, MIT classes have some ... their connections with culture, religion, and the MIT experience. ​We also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  terribly wrong and i feel nervous about the future and mit is a minefield of ... --that's what my relationship with mit is like, except that i'm only here for four years, not forever--i love mit for everything it represented before i came

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016