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• Discover / The MIT education

  Independent Activities Period

  ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... regularly scheduled classes to do...whatever they want![/intro] [annotation note='With the unintentional benefit, according to then-President Howard
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  mentors and job supervisors can also be great choices to write college ... less constrained educational environment to take on exciting projects, go ...  Stanford OHS. Transcripts of these courses, in addition to an evaluation of the
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How much it costs

  [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT ... median annual price paid by an undergraduate who received an MIT ... -free. Those who do borrow tend to have debt at graduation lower than the
• Discover / The MIT education

  Undergraduate research

  each year draw on UROP research, and most undergraduates will be included ... 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 / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  , I don't need to be introspective or do any soul searching to figure ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to ... criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... period, devoting more time to each application, and 2) it provides
• Apply / First-year applicants

  DACA & undocumented applicants

  As part of our mission to uphold meritocracy and fair access for ... consider your (in)ability to pay for MIT in our admissions process ... personal expenses. MIT is committed to supporting undocumented students in
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Admissions statistics

  beyond the stats already contributed to the MIT's standard Common Data Set. Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not ... characteristics like these are much harder to quantify and are therefore not
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  Social media

  the latest research and news to the craziest hacks and campus events
• 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
• Discover / Learn more

  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
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  lots of decisions quickly and well is going to decrease. There's no way to prevent it, only ways to manage it better. It's hard to manage ... 's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  you cut into one, and I wanted it to be symbolic of the way Ozai loses ... make a total of [annotation note="to be fair, they do taste really good ... three-course meal cook-off at the end of July, which would be judged by my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and others are bitter. I liked being confused by interesting projects ... be viewed here. Figure 1: Daily Activity I made a box-plot to ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  -mail was not going to be answered. I did a quick search online, found the ... another lab? No way. I wanted that UROP. I signed up to be a research ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  from 10 to 0. The countdown could be interrupted by a press from the ... needed to make sure they were being encoded the same way (utf-8) for ... it was going to be fun. Originally, I was pretty hesitant, seeing as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... optimizations to be able to search deeper into the game tree. Sidenote: I think 6 ... improve search depth, but care must be taken to ensure that our search still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by ... my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at ... the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  day are not okay. When things get to be too much, it is really important ... and be very friendly when you go in and say hi. Go say hi to Evan! MIT ... (other than being an EMT), but I have had most-to-all of this information

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014