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FAQ / Life and culture
Who was the first woman graduate?
In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made -
FAQ / First-year application
Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to ... has its own application website and admissions requirements. -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?
MITES Semester (formerly known as MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community, MOSTEC) is a six-month hybrid learning STEM and college preparation experience, free of charge, for rising high school seniors. The -
FAQ / Academics and research
How awesome is MIT Physics?
The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. -
FAQ / Life and culture
Are volunteer opportunities available?
At the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG Center), you can connect with a variety of public service projects in local, national, and global communities. The PKG Center can also provide guidance—and -
FAQ / Academics and research
What is the Media Lab?
The MIT Media Lab is known for its bold innovations that help invent the future, and fosters an “antidisciplinary research community” that mixes and matches seemingly disparate research disciplines to pioneer -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
Where can I find parent info?
We understand that helping your child find the right college is a daunting task and that many things have to be considered. We have information and advice that we hope you find helpful on our For parents page. -
FAQ / First-year application
How do I get on the mailing list?
We don't do a lot of mailing, but you can sign up for our awesome monthly email newsletter that shares what's happening on campus and—if you're applying—provides updates and tips. -
FAQ / International applicants
Can you mail me materials internationally?
Due to increasing mail costs and in an effort to be environmentally-conscious, we no longer mail materials internationally, and we do very limited mailing within the U.S. You may however, sign up for our monthly newsletter -
Blog / Life after MIT
throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)
— the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but reading everyone's blogs has brought me so much joy, and i'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have -
Blog / Announcements
New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]
, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂 ... , counterclocks (which are exactly what they sound like), and stupid Mathcamp game -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.
Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading poems that I write for my poetry workshop class and Alan writes for their -
Blog / Admissions
My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds
update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike ... the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and -
Blog / About Decisions
Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class
I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... FUN jokes and written them on my whiteboard, I have learned facts and ... teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and -
Blog / Personal Travel
Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.
outcrops, meadows, stunning outlooks, and dramatic waterfalls - so, we weren ... ranger station, and filled out backcountry permits. The park ranger on duty ... black bear mating season, and that black bears usually only attack people -
Blog / Challenges
Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.
ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome ... or root against. And then today's tragic events happened. In a few seconds, a day ripped apart - two explosions, three deaths, and a casualty -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity
for them and the less snow, the more they can deny winter exists. For me though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is probably my favorite season. I'm just not built for the beaches and heat -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.
(an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a ... /directed/edited/produced the entire thing themselves, and did it all in 2 weeks from concept to ... their hands and let life happen to them - they're going to want to go out -
Blog / Admissions
On Greatness
(and occasionally even current students) saying basically the same thing ... lately, and it's got me thinking about incredible people and what it is in them that makes them incredible. And the surprising conclusion I've come