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Student life at MIT
likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study breaks to startup meetings, from dining halls to family dinners. We could -
Apply / Understanding the process
Our mission
's longstanding commitment to the public interest, a theory we put into practice ... enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will become the leaders and innovators of our global society. We uphold a commitment to meritocracy and -
Discover / About MIT
Inventions & innovations
discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ... associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor ... oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly -
Discover / Life and culture
Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks
stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do no damage to property or any person, must be safe, and must provide joy or amusement to those who -
Arts and music
Orchestra, Festival Jazz Ensemble, and Rambax, a Senegalese drumming group, to name a few. Tune in below to watch the MIT Video Game Orchestra in their ... are more than a dozen active dance ensembles at MIT, and the best way to -
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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 -
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First-year class profile
citizens and excluded from all other categories). All percentages rounded to ... http://iso.mit.edu/about/statistics.shtml. Socioeconomic Status First generation in their family to attend college 20 -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.
? Beyond that, having the opportunity to spend four years living and learning ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations -
Blog / About Decisions
In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine
socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... 't have a holistic process. Suppose that we wanted to build an application ... is to constitute a class of sufficiently prepared individuals who have -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Your last first day and your final final exam
committere, which has evolved meanings over time, from "consign someone to ... your mailing list? To the student groups, the Midway is one of the ... schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And -
Blog / About Decisions
Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it
care of ourselves during this time of year, but we also have processes to ... your life this time of year. If we aren't responding to your emails as ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again -
Blog / Academics & Research
6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit
much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... struggled with actually getting my code to work. By the time lab was over, I ... to loud continous sounds Your system shoudl NOT respond to continuous -
Blog / Advice
You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things
't have to wait until you're older before you start thinking about it too ... others I don't have space to list, I hope I made your job easier, and if ... lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?
background that we needed to go over, and we didn’t have enough time to do the ... . Your Body Is a Clock: Chronobiology. What even is chronobiology? I have ... Andrew L. ’22, a freshman at the time, was gushing to me about how -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts
I may have been accepted to MIT, but by Snively '11 That rings a ... time capsule, too. Suffice to say that, in 2004, there were barely any ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.
this as many times as you can until you start to feel better and more in ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... could look at all the things we have to look forward to and the days won -
Blog / Academics & Research
Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core
, making me feel terrible about how much I have to face with no energy or ... measures, support networks, just seems to have gone out the window in favor ... 'd have to admit that I'm sad and disappointed and frustrated. (so instead I -
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i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*
creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach