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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... introduction to MIT's famous tunnels. Ben: Driving on the Infinite A guide to ... . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Biographical & personal information

  ask you what you'd like us to call you. If you enter a preferred first ... want you to know before you tell us more about yourself. Email We ask that you use one email for all activities related to your application
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Our mission

  's longstanding commitment to the public interest, a theory we put into practice ... enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will become the leaders and innovators of our global society. We uphold a commitment to meritocracy and
• Discover / About MIT

  Inventions & innovations

  discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ...  associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor ... oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly
• Apply / First-year applicants

  February Updates & Notes Form

  your school uses a trimester schedule, please use your first ... . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your college counselor to complete the February Updates & Notes Form
• Discover / The MIT education

  MIT’s educational philosophy

  principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in order to graduate. However, the MIT education has always been based on
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  College access & advising programs

  The process of applying to college isn’t always straightforward (though we try to be as transparent as possible at MIT!) and it can take the ... application process, learning how to tell your story, and finding a school where
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  WISE 2025

  , or might be the first in their family to attend college. Please note ... are admitted to WISE has no bearing upon the consideration of your first ... rising seniors to learn what it’s like to be an MIT student.[/intro] The
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For school counselors

  regionalized officer who exclusively presents to your school or area. All of our ... prepared to speak with you and answer your questions.[/intro] Call us We are always happy to have a professional conversation on the phone, especially

• Explore MIT on your own

  [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... new things—whether on campus or off—there's more than enough to explore from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  cousin to the Great Dome; sits above Lobby 7 Lobby 10 - First floor of ... translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Deadlines & requirements

  The application The first-year application is open in the MIT application portal. Please note: You’re only allowed to apply once per entry ... -native English speakers who plan to apply. Mid-February February Updates &
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for inspiring me to write this post in the first ... ."]plot points,[/annotation] the 2003 Hunt was the first to have many pages of ... organization in 2013. Its online archives go back to 2015, but the first listed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Discover / The MIT education

  Undergraduate research

  you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands ...  credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your ... you that maybe get your feet under you first. First-year UROPs are often
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Getting started

  Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... the end of your first year at MIT—there's a lot of time between now and then to explore, discover new things, and change your mind. What you
• About

  About MIT Admissions

  and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute, including both prospective first-year and transfer students. We also ... aspire to attend it. As one of our colleagues once wrote, we believe that
• Apply / First-year applicants

  International applicants

  we continue to welcome them today. If you are an international student ... 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

• Housing and residence life

  experience, and all first-year students live in one of our 10 on-campus residence halls. And MIT allows its students to choose which residence they want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels
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  About MITAdmissions.org

  blogs back in 2004, we had to use external hosting and an external domain name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense ... resource about first-year and transfer admissions. We do not conduct
• Discover / The MIT education

  Majors & minors

  .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university, not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT ... confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can