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FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT recruit athletes?
MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country. MIT is always looking for students-athletes. Almost 20 percent of ... interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of -
FAQ / Academics and research
What are Psets?
psets. Problem sets are the backbone of our teaching in many subjects; for many, problem-solving is the essence of the MIT education. Faculty vary as to the portion of course credit derived from psets. In some cases -
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 / Life and culture
Can I play football at MIT?
ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out that most of the team members had a better chance of "owning" an NFL team -
FAQ / First-year application
How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?
MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers. The most ... profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... section of your application. We will also accept letters and materials -
Blog / Life after MIT
Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)
of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic ... at the end of your college application journey? What's the point of ... CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested -
Blog / Miscellaneous
tote bag tour i have so many things to carry
I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train
’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month
I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual ... controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 ... Tok describing the sluttiness of sweaters for my friend Julian '23 Cami: This -
Blog / Events
MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15
part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define ... in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a -
Blog / MIT Life
what’s on my desk? creative furniture
sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because ... corner. the blankets on the floor are on top of a standard foam mattress -
Blog / MIT Life
merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand
% of annual time) where we go to class, typically weekends and days off ... (3% of annual time) of winter break as a truly reliable time to relax. See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by -
Blog / Admissions
I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)
other way than navigating to or searching for MITAdmissions.org. Of course, it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn ... taking and posting many square, filtered photos of MIT. As some -
Blog / About Decisions
A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs
It's May 1st. Most of your friends have decided where they are going ... well at MIT. First of all, please and let ... ; 1. Are there normal people there?/Are 'my kind of people' at MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.
about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with, so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature -
Blog / MIT Life
Cats!! I love where I live!!
MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... fantastically different culture and feeling of community! My absolute favorite floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT
as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything ... where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places. But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my -
Blog / Admissions
Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?
in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... , especially in summer. Here are my picks: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan -
Blog / Events
Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake
made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court ... waitstaff began to fill the bars and the tables full of treats, while rows and