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  • Explore MIT on your own

    [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT ... —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual
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    Via tesseract

    learned to take short cuts wherever possible." "Sort of like in math?" Meg ... section of skirt in Mrs. Who's right hand to that in her left, it would be ... . That is how we travel.” [annotation note="Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle In
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in ... make sure to check with other schools before applying. In addition to

  • 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 ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to
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    Via mail

    find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of

  • Next steps

    [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place so special. Before you go, we have some final resources for you to take
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    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... evaluation. Please refer to the instructions on how to submit recommendations ... Social studies Geography How to submit Your school counselor (or
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    students who don't go directly to graduate school, many do so in the future ... to all alumni. MIT alumni also volunteer in formal service to the ... . There have been too many, and varied, notable people to count in any
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own, and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... a venue in which to learn and practice (safe) LED prop and fire
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    they have [annotation note="Exceptions may be granted to students in the ... [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    any high school student can come to campus to take courses and live in ... We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the ... entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you may have taken at the university
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    February Updates & Notes Form

    . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your ... deferred in Early Action, and all students who applied for Regular Action ... application portal in mid-January and should be completed as soon as possible
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    -delivering channels that release medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and ... resources to help them get started on entrepreneurial projects of their own ... discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary

  • Arts and music

    name a few. Tune in below to watch the MIT Video Game Orchestra in their ... get to know them is by watching them perform. Enjoy this performance by ... [intro]MIT students are as creative in the studio and on stage as
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to ... the coach of their sport to indicate their interest in MIT. Club & ... [intro]We have the largest Division III athletics program in the
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    Creative portfolios

    what you make, how you make, and why you make. Your responses in the ... build process to help us understand your work. We are more interested in ... fine to submit works in progress, but we can only review the work that
  • Discover / Learn more

    Books about MIT

    how MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a ... the evolution of MIT as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the ... , values, and controversies in which the college admissions process is
  • Discover / The MIT education

    General Institute Requirements

    , and social sciences, including three to four in a concentration of your ... subjects of Restricted Electives in Science and Technology to give you the opportunity to proceed further in areas already studied, or to explore other