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How much is the application fee?
one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... negative impact on your chances of admission.
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FAQ / Academics and research
What’s the Deshpande Center?
the marketplace. The center empowers some of MIT’s most talented ... technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there a medical facility on campus?
MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical -
FAQ / Life and culture
How did the blogs get started?
Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have -
FAQ / First-year application
When are decisions announced?
of decisions. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT prefer public school or private school?
MIT receives diverse and interesting applications from students in every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / Life and culture
What support is available for LBGTQ students?
MIT strives to create a safe and welcoming environment for LBGTQ students. MIT and its surrounding communities offer a broad array of ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well. -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.
that makes living here a new experience every day. One of those things is ... then, and in that time I have become something of a self-proclaimed master of Bostonian Biking. My BlueBikes account has counted nearly 1 -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator
Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to -
Blog / Featured Blogs
parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe
and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant ... my place here. one of the most sure things about sophomore year is my -
Blog / Events
How the World Cup Will Conclude Backed by Science
I like to think of myself as a fortune teller. And since predicting a tournament's outcome is basically telling a fortune, I've decided to tell ... , biased by virtue of my being a Ghanaian: And yes, all -
Blog / Academics & Research
i did nothing these past two years, part 1 starting over?
this morning, i got kicked out of my lab. of course, it felt like a ... the hot summertime glow of killian court, a bit suffocating in its boisterous proclamations of lemonade encased in sweat and retreat to air -
Blog / Events
This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)
🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very -
Blog / Academics & Research
lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!
(allegedly) engaged in the blasphemous act of… Google Doc roleplaying… Anyways ... school, but I did become a loyal fan of Broadway! So when I saw that one of ... –all MIT students must take at least 8 of these classes to graduate! side -
Blog / Advice
new york without instagram who are you performing for?
days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... ’t awful, but considering how much all of my friends raved about this city i ... of my system first. i’ll preface it by saying that this is my very -
Blog / Classes
contradictions too much, not enough
from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long -
Blog / MIT Life
catching up what are you doing over the summer?
our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t