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What type of first-year learning communities are available?
provides students with the opportunity to study and socialize as part of a
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FAQ / First-year application
How do I apply as a permanent resident?
All students must complete the MIT application with their current citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered a U.S. citizen if you currently hold a United States permanent -
FAQ / Life and culture
What does the Office of the First Year do?
general academic information. In addition, staff can assist you with the -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?
comprehend agriculture, energy needs, trade, and finance—along with the -
FAQ / Life and culture
How many students play sports at MIT?
With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT recruit athletes?
the admissions process, support that we consider along with the rest of -
FAQ / International applicants
What is the Secondary School Report?
you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and -
FAQ / Transfer
Does MIT offer transfer credit?
offered at your institution to those offered at MIT with the MIT Bulletin -
FAQ / Transfer
Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?
At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit for calculus) and calculus-based physics. It’s rare that an applicant -
FAQ / Transfer
How do I apply as a veteran?
. If you’ve completed two or more terms with high academic standing at an -
Blog / Blog Projects
ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES
you don’t know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a ... sensitive topic. We’re looking forward to chatting with you all below! Don ... Engineering with a Concentration in Product Development (2A-PD). Feel free to -
Blog / IAP
Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!
with my friends. Sure, I had a [annotation note="a research project I ... , and I was left with one week to finish about two-thirds of a giant homework packet. My second Bad Idea was S’mores with [annotation note -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words
In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note='With ... married, now with two dogs, for eleven years. The impact of meeting her is ... (though perhaps not for me) to compete GPA-wise with applicants from -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones
with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way ... hear “unreliable narrator” used to refer to an agent with ulterior -
Blog / Academics & Research
it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up
Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... liminal space between Boston and NYC. Now I associate Connecticut with fire ... East Campus though. The activation energy needed to hang out with my -
Blog / MIT Life
sitting down no more sprinting
back into [annotation note="my dorm <3"]Maseeh[/annotation], with all ... -shirts before going out for Korean food with friends. Immediately, the rush of MIT ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around -
Blog / Athletics
Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!
sports are pretty epic. With all this in mind, as a junior midfielder on ... -athlete because it is hard to find the friendships and bonds you get with your ... playing football and hanging out with friends and family after the game -
Blog / How to Human
Strands literal and metaphorical >:)
along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... dull roar of a hair dryer. I walked into the store with overgrown -
Blog / Classes
plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762
This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular ... I appreciated having a non-judgemental environment to experiment with ... subleaser's rabbit from hell, and putting up with an absolute slob of a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache
hurting, dripping with that bittersweet feeling of disappointment. Now, I ... myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with ... ’t struggle with emotional compartmentalization. She had the capacity to work 13