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    First-year learning communities

    a whole lot of change happening at once. In the span of a few weeks ... are part of much smaller academic groups, the first-year learning ... students as they go through their first year at MIT. Each of the three
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    The first year

    by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no record. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, students may
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    WISE 2024

    , including the cost of transportation to and from MIT. We strongly encourage ... : You must attend high school in the United States or one of its ... financial aid application process. Travel The cost of transportation to and
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    STEM programs

    your imagination and powers of analysis, connect you with other young ... and excitement of a college like MIT.  Here’s an incomplete list of some remarkable programs, organizations, and websites that many of our
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    Creative portfolios

    Room.
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  • infinite MIT

    , and a lot of exploration along the way. We don't read, edit, or ... check them out, there are 7,300 as of this writing."] student bloggers.[/annotation]We hope you'll get a good sense of the MIT community and if it might be a
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    Letters of recommendation

    We require letters of recommendation from two teachers. We recommend ...  and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of
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    General Institute Requirements

    curriculum and foundation for the rest of your education.[/intro] William ... studies...of the philosopher are often the most beneficent sources of ... of study. They include the: Science core: six foundational courses
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    The transfer application

    .S. permanent residents may apply through spring entry. Transcripts: Copies of all of your secondary/high school, college, and university transcripts should be uploaded within the MIT transfer application. Two letters of
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    Inventions & innovations

    of world-changing advancements. These innovations translate the novel discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ... Globe published a ranked list of 150 inventions and discoveries
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    Undergraduate research

    [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States ... thousands of projects each year with 95% of MIT graduating seniors conducting ... —redefining the nature of research at MIT. Hundreds of academic papers published
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    Getting started

    the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need ... your chances of admission. Field of study We're asking about your preferred field of study because we're curious about what interests you right
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    Clubs & activities

    cultural appreciation and scientific investigation of chocolate, and the only group on campus that orders more than 500 pounds of chocolate a year Science Fiction Society, home to the largest open-stacks library of science
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    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ... computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of hacking, the definition of hacking descends from a much older tradition of
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    Other videos

    people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of ... of MIT. [embed]https://youtu.be/TA1UX8NCD08[/embed] [embed
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    Essays, activities & academics

    consists of several short response questions and essays designed to help us ... too much—spending a lot of time stressing or strategizing about what ... these short answer essay questions: What field of study appeals to you

  • Policies

     central accessibility website where you can find all of MIT's accessibility resources in ... three years of campus crime and fire safety statistics and certain campus ... ’s campus, please see the following link. Hard copies of this report are

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part of what makes life at MIT so vibrant.[/intro] The humans of MIT move