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    General Institute Requirements

     advanced placement or advanced standing in the GIRs. The important thing to know is ... curriculum and foundation for the rest of your education.[/intro] William Barton Rogers, MIT's founding president, once wrote that "the abstract
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    Clubs & activities

    health and wellness Outing Club, which is dedicated to helping the MIT ... desires.[/intro] The recognized student groups at MIT include ethnic and ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the
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    Basic facts

    year is the last year for which we have data. Source: MIT Institutional ... [annotation note='The 2023–2024 academic year is the last year for which we have ... 2023–2024 academic year is the last year for which we have data. Source
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    The first year

    system is designed to ease the transition from high school by giving ... the first year is centered around completing several GIRs. Students may ... . The conventional program is longstanding but, like everything at MIT, an
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    Inventions & innovations

    light up if medicine is running low 2016—Recording the first direct ... the knowledge we produce. One way this happens is through ... [intro]For more than 150 years, the Institute has married teaching
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    Books about MIT

    , values, and controversies in which the college admissions process is ... , and impact on the world. Here are some of our favorites: A Widening ... how MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a
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    Our mission

    Our work at MIT Admissions is both bound and inspired by MIT's longstanding commitment to the public interest, a theory we put into practice with our admissions process and financial aid. The MIT Office of

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    We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world through education, research, and innovation. We are fun and quirky
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    Admissions videos

    tradition. You can watch them all in a YouTube playlist here, or in the embedded player below. MIT: Live the Puzzle (2011) An award winning short from our homepage! [embed]https://vimeo.com/74726343[/embed] MIT: The
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    Maker education

    project-based include 2.007 Design and Manufacturing, which is the academic ... come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto mens et manus—mind and hand—puts equal emphasis on theory and practice. The

  • Explore MIT on your own

    [annotation note="the official motto is actually Latin, “mens et manus ... . Since folks at the Institute are always making, writing, and discovering ... .[/intro] Let's get started At the bottom of each page—starting with this one
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    force is the last resort of the incompetent. Never hack alone. Above ... experience the hack.[/intro] At MIT, hacking refers to more than breaking into computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of

  • Arts and music

    The MIT music community is extensive, including a conservatory ... [intro]MIT students are as creative in the studio and on stage as they are in the lab. More than half of undergrads enroll in arts and
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    Via tesseract

    "That, of course, is the impractical, long way around. We have ... , my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge." Mrs. Who ... see," Mrs. Whatsit said, "if a very small insect were to move from the
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    Via email

    Our email address is [email protected]. If you email that address ... four people. We average a response within 24 hours, but the number of emails tend to spike especially around the application deadlines, so please
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    First-year class profile

    For the MIT Class of 2028 Some facts and figures about the ... [/annotation] of the Class of 2028. You may also be interested in this post from our Dean of Admissions + Student Financial Services about the composition of
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    Returning students

    send for review is left up to the individual non-traditional applicant to ... extended break from conventional education, and we value the insights and experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we