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  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    all, exercise common sense.  There is a great and comprehensive ... hacking at MIT, including Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT ... [intro]At MIT, "hacks" are performed by students who safely and
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

    .[/intro] In 1969, Margaret MacVicar, then a 26-year-old MIT professor (and ... each year draw on UROP research, and most undergraduates will be included as coauthors on them. Every scientist was once a novice: UROP gives
  • Discover / About MIT

    Basic facts

    and Innovation winners 82 MacArthur Fellows 17 A.M. Turing Award ... [intro]MIT's primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To

  • Explore MIT on your own

    Semester and a Half (blog by Cami M. ’23) Meet MIT faculty (Tea with ... [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT. Since folks at the Institute are always making, writing, and discovering

  • Math certifications

    . Both are great options and we don’t have a preference for one over the ... the certification. Achieve a 90% on the course challenge and then ... and approved, you’ll get an email with a publicly shareable link to your
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your application as a ... We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or representative. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full ... pursuing a different field of study from the bachelor’s degree you hold. By
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Interview

    your interviewer a vivid sense of your passions and aspirations. MIT ... , we offer an interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council, a ... whenever possible, however you may coordinate a virtual interview if agreed
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there ... MIT has two application cycles: Early Action (EA) and Regular Action ... cycles for two reasons: 1) it helps us spread our work out over a longer
  • About

    Meet the admissions officers

    decisions. Admissions officers have a wide variety of backgrounds and ... relax: Tending to my plants with a candle lit and some chill indie music ... Favorite drink: Earl grey, earl grey, and more earl grey (also a London Fog
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Biographical & personal information

    As you get started on your application, here are a few things that we ... —including communicating with us and registering for standardized tests—so the email you list ... account. And please make sure that it’s an email you’ll have access to
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    here's a quick summary: Domestic students The following documents help us paint a detailed picture of what kind of aid you’ll need to be able to ... : a tool provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you
  • Help / Contact

    Via tesseract

    took a portion of her white robe in her hands and held it tight. "You see," Mrs. Whatsit said, "if a very small insect were to move from the ... skirt and show them." "La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... understand life is more rich and complicated than a checkbox, and we take that ... colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Deadlines & requirements

    a math or science teacher and one from a humanities, social science ... recommendation—one from a math or science teacher and one from a humanities, social ... for researchers, performing artists, visual artists, and makers to
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    the end of your first year at MIT—there's a lot of time between now and ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    -register at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), a respected ... , and MassArt.[/intro] We believe that MIT students should [annotation ... and objective inquiry, and recognize and provide opportunities for

  • Maps, directions, parking

    you are coming from, you could also walk, bike, take the bus, or maybe a ... . Cambridge traffic is usually awful, the layout of the roads is confusing, and, although there is public parking at the Hayward Parking Garage, and
  • Help / Contact

    Visit our office

    could also walk, bike, take the bus, or maybe a taxi/rideshare. We ... usually awful, the layout of the roads is confusing, and, although there is public parking at the Hayward Parking Garage, and other public lots in Kendall
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Advanced classes & credit

    see that students have challenged themselves in high school and have ... substantially between regions, schools, teachers, and even individual classes. See a list of our credit policies for common advanced placement courses