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• Discover / About MIT

  Basic facts

  [intro]MIT's primary purposes are teaching and research with relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To that end, we seek the best possible community of scholars (and humans
• Apply / Understanding the process

  What we look for

  downtime in high school as well. Our application's essay question (Tell us
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Letters of recommendation

  who has taught you in an academic class in high school. Ideally, this
• Discover / Learn more

  Books about MIT

  planet" —  on the eastern end of the MIT campus We linked these books to
• Discover / About MIT

  Life after MIT

  study, but not always in fields they thought they were going to end up in
• About

  About MIT Admissions

  that end, we routinely reconsider, and reflect upon, our programs and ... that their application is not the end, but the beginning, of a set of
• Discover / The MIT education

  The first year

  system is designed to ease the transition from high school by giving
• Apply / First-year applicants

  February Updates & Notes Form

  -trimester grades. Students who have already graduated simply select the "I'm not
• About

  About MITAdmissions.org

  About MITAdmissions.org MITAdmissions.org is the official website of MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. We are located on our own domain (i.e., not on mit.edu) for historical reasons: when we started our
• Discover / The MIT education

  Majors & minors

  Entrepreneurship & Innovation E&I No ✅Yes Environmental Engineering
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  . (I see you, Eric Z. ’23, Vincent H. ’23, and [annotation note="who is ... high school again, just so I could go to Splash and take classes. Some ... explore, but tell me not to sign up for too many things, else I end up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ended, Nathan opened a conversation about how ephemeral puzzles are. I ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... community member. Here I'll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  school ended, and I had homework to do, but I was too stressed out to ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page ... didn't. R.M. ‘19   I just got off from McDonald's and sat by myself in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• 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.

  

  Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though

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

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  freshmen and other MIT students were hanging. I would end up spending the ... : I attained high grades and usually ranked at the top of the class ... extremely racist encounter. Upon realizing I wasn’t the thief, the man let go

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  sailing with him to Baker’s Island, just outside Salem, MA. I did not ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  the first few weeks (I hope I'm not assuming too much - oh man, please ... bought later? Does anyone even exist like that? ..Oh yeah, I do. 'Sup. This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  blending is seamless. I’m in love with how the piece evolved and ended up ... gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth REX, and this time, I am on assignment with MIT Technology Review

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I grew up and spent my high school in? Is it East Campus, the dorm I ... I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every few months since I started blogging. I thought I'd record how it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023