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• Discover / The MIT education

  Majors & minors

  confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can ... .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university, not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT
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  Books about MIT

  -time digital computer to the famous Baker House Piano Drop Designing MIT ... to negotiating with student protesters Mind and Hand: The Birth of ...  by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson, which provides a lively introduction to
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How much it costs

  [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT ... -free. Those who do borrow tend to have debt at graduation lower than the ... salary of $126,438 for graduates entering industry according to the most
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  less constrained educational environment to take on exciting projects, go ...  Stanford OHS. Transcripts of these courses, in addition to an evaluation of the ...  Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work with other students
• Discover / About MIT

  Basic facts

  [intro]MIT's primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are
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  people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of
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  Newsletters

  [intro]Would you like to hear from us every once in a while?[/intro] Then you should sign up for our MIT Admissions monthly newsletter (prospective undergraduates only please). It's from us(!), and contains
• 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
• Discover / The MIT education

  Undergraduate research

  you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands ...  credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Challenge, which is a meta-start-up—that is to say, it’s a start-up accelerator ... without Googling! :D ) After that, I managed to convince Alex W. and Emi to ... Graduation The 2014s just graduated, but right now I want to take you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot ... heat. how to taper, rivet, chisel, and assorted other skills. tapering is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  could accelerate to strike like a bullet, with the intent to prove that ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don ... this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019