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Who is the Class of 2028?
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FAQ / Life and culture
What’s the MIT motto?
MIT's motto, mens et manus, translates from Latin to mind and hand. This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Does MIT offer an online degree?
MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning. -
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 ... that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific ... students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Ice Bear it’s ice bear
Due to popular demand, here’s a guest post from Ice Bear. If you haven’t heard of Ice Bear before, here’s a good introductory video: https ... enjoys companionship. Ice Bear goes to sleep. Ice Bear will wake up again. -
Blog / Academics & Research
A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs
Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Forum for those Not Admitted
applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk. -
Blog / About Decisions
Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.
here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted students choose to enroll by the May 1 deadline. After that time, we will -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Forum for those Not Admitted
applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk. -
Blog / Events
Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.
, online. Click To Play Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip! -
Blog / Events
MYSTERY HUNT! Live from Mystery Hunt!
eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips. Needless to say, I'm never eating either of those again. If you want to join in and remote -
Blog / Events
Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!
hour. Though they were given the option to build anything they wanted, three teams decided to model MIT buildings. Check it out, who do you think -
Blog / About Decisions
Not admitted
This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting fewer than 13% of applicants means we had to turn away many, many ... open post for you to talk. And, if you haven't already, check out Ben -
FAQ / Academics and research
How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?
team mentoring approach with groups of three to four mentors sitting with the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day-to -
FAQ / International applicants
Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?
Students holding dual citizenship should apply to MIT with their U.S. citizenship status. Students holding non-U.S. dual citizenships may select ... international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which -
Blog / Academics & Research
21E our major in a diagram!
about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... 've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements ... = Fun and Games: Cross-Cultural Perspectives CMS.100 = Introduction to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why
.... I wish I could be the perfect [beaver] But I come back to the ... ] Every [deadline] I make, [Mass Ave] leads back To the place I know, where, where I long to be... Okay I'm done now. I've taken way too many photos of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Goodbye, for now
Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined ... next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop ... Spring 2015 and will not be able to blog about MIT-related activities -
Blog / MIT Life
AMA Ask Me Anything.
not for at least another week. I want to talk to you, especially since some of you need to decide whether or not to come to MIT and the rest of ... advanced fiction workshop with Junot Díaz). When I grow up I want to write -
Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience
Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives