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FAQ / Transfer
Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?
Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer… -
Blog / IAP
Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest
. Fortunately for me (and those of you who want to hear about 6.111 and my other ... rest of IAP, for that matter). So I decided that this year I was going ... less accomplished that, with a few exceptions. So, "what I did for IAP -
Blog / Blog Projects
For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here
It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could -
FAQ / Visit
How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?
without a reservation for a session, we will not be able to accommodate you. But don't feel like you have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for -
Blog / Blog Projects
Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?
answers and their corresponding dorms to create the quiz for the blogs ... questions until the day before the dorm decision form was released for ... studying for finals, of course). Turns out I'm bad at spreadsheets, so I just -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can access it here. While the application is always new for first -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live
I’m writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can access it here. You can review the dates and deadlines for this year -
Blog / Announcements
We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle
, our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for ... outcome-driven and applicant-oriented: we don't value scores for their own sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for -
Blog / Announcements
We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well
office will again suspend our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for next year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... have SAT/ACT scores for a student, we can more confidently assess their -
Blog / Class Projects
The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects
semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... this tutorial for making stress balls using slime and fishnets. The -
Blog / About Decisions
These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP
now for applicants to confirm their login ability and decision -
Blog / How to Food
1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity
packages over the summer and IAP Advocated for a low-cost student-run market Facilitated food pantry "cooking cupboards" in all dorms for short-term food insecurity Been a voice for the 10% of students that have lacked -
Blog / Announcements
We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT
diverse and talented group of students who are a good match for MIT's unique ... /ACT requirement for future admissions cycles. Our research shows standardized tests ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is -
Blog / Announcements
PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1
up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 -
FAQ / QuestBridge
Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?
email address that you used for your QuestBridge application. Do not ... , please allow 7–10 business days for this to be reflected on your Applicant ... for you. If you are selected as a QuestBridge Finalist, you will be able -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.
street is that this could mean a Nobel Prize for MIT's Prof. Alan Guth ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make the most -
Blog / Academics & Research
2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.
("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... history community about whether and for how long they actually met (an afternoon? a week?) but for some reason their partnership never took off -
Blog / Academics & Research
If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.
write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example ... that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 -
Blog / Class Projects
Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions
(Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... time to watch them, you can read a PDF "pitch deck" for each product here