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FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT prefer public school or private school?
MIT receives diverse and interesting applications from students in every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / Life and culture
What support is available for LBGTQ students?
MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ students. MIT and its surrounding communities offer a broad array of ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well. -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive 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 -
Blog / Athletics
MIT is a jock school the secret is out
famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the academic success, lurks an astounding amount of athletic success. Let me -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27
half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in September. I knew that this transition would be challenging. Juggling all of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses
of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I ... it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I -
Blog / Announcements
FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin
: sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role — Director of ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of -
Blog / Challenges
my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season
. In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage ... . During this short bike ride, a toooon of people responded. Like, 16 people -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
last concert
the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much ... years of my time in college of course 5 mics wasn’t enough, so we also -
Blog / Challenges
i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid
It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Purgatory My 2023 IAP
a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of -
Blog / Challenges
dont want to write ah
's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i -
Blog / Challenges
I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to
bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my -
Blog / Advice
falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe
climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees -
Blog / Advice
You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application
virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least ... guidance. While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo
without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it