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  Transfer credit & advanced standing

  're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless ... you graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate's degree ... Baccalaureate, A-level, Baccalauréat, etc. Some MIT departments have established

• Housing and residence life

  want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels ... [annotation note='East Campus residence hall is closed for a two-year renovation ... kitchens! All residence halls have a live-in house team who cultivate
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  Housing at MIT

  [intro]Housing is a very important part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its ... -campus residence halls.[/intro] We believe that students should have a great deal of
• Apply / Understanding the process

  First-year class profile

  percentages are [annotation note="Except for when a number would round to zero ... methodology is a federal standard that the United States government requires ... according to the [annotation note='The IPEDS methodology is a federal standard
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  International applicants

  MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... significant time in the United States, or those who have a liminal status as
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  [intro]Would you like to hear from us every once in a while?[/intro] Then you should sign up for our MIT Admissions monthly newsletter (prospective undergraduates only please). It's from us(!), and contains
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Transfer eligibility

  entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms ... second bachelor’s degrees—even if you are interested in pursuing a

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  Admissions statistics

  We love data at MIT. Reliable data, properly contextualized, can help people understand complex systems and make informed decisions. So, a few ... Applicants offered a place on the wait list 561 Number admitted from the wait
• Discover / The MIT education

  Cross-registration

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• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

    N = Nat, K = Kirsten 1. Don't buy ANY food! N: One of the best ... since you guys will have a meal card! 2. Don't be afraid to randomly talk ... last well into the morning. Don't let a little drowsiness stop you from

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  are way too good at carving pumpkins. I don't think I've ever carved a ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... STEM topics more accessible and exciting to a K-12 audience. And Science ... about plant metabolomes. So, as a MIT+K12 Videos Fellow, I've been

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... know, as well as a poignant and accomplished blogger. Enjoy! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book ... , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... -quality quotation, director Jon Favreau said of Stark as a superhero, "He wasn’t

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  piece (T), a brown piece (B), a blue piece (L), and a green piece (G). M ... one of my hopes for my technical education at MIT: as a 6-7/18 major, I’m ... skim or skip around if it helps you get a picture of the proof.) I’m

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  reevaluating yourself on a wide lens you didn’t know you could look through. this ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2 ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : i know right??? * * * FROSH: so what year are you ME: i'm a senior ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... airplane, it was almost exactly three months ago. I didn't know that 5 meant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013