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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where ... halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  other great universities, and I’m very proud to be a part of that legacy. ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  care of sick students in my hall and at MIT in general, which I'm really ... time for... - being a social member of French House, a cultural hall in ... So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  obstacles3. Remember that you are applying to be part of a student body, not ... into MIT and that deciding to apply was not an uphill battle in and of ... would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... official school profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied ... , especially since so many MIT applicants also apply to the slew of top schools

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  , President Reif joined hundreds of other university Presidents in signing an ... As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  fundamental particle of his universe is sugar. 4.Lowercase Greek letters all ... urge to say, “Can't we all just relax?” (The same applies for mention of ... repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  many of you will consider applying! ... Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall ... University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it wouldn’t make too much of a difference – we’d share the

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  to ensure his room reflected this desire. ** Random Hall is a mix of ... of his freshman year, courtesy of Random Hall’s annual room lottery ... iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of ... to our email list without any commitment to apply for admission.
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading ... Xerox (India).  Sara Hernandez Class of 2015 MIT-India Program ... applied to solve real problems and I hope I can go back to India to start my

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  the hallowed halls of Maseeh, but it’s cozy and since the electrical ... compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014