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• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  years of the Institvte will offer. One thing's for certain: wherever I go ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very ... sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements ... . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was ... Miller, was out of town today, so the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Quantum Mechanics Sequence MIT is one of the few schools that offers three ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... three pieces of advice. 1. Relax. 2. Submit your application well in advance of the deadline. 3. Relax. Here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions ... Pushiness of Parents, and Other Admissions Tales By ALVIN P. SANOFF While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  surplus of academic jobs currently, so getting an offer from a place like ... ultimately got offers from two of those after interviewing at four. You can ... a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020