FAQ / First-year application
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 / Life and culture
Is MIT a diverse community?
At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from ... reality. The mission of the MIT Institute Community & Equity Office -
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 / 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
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 / Athletics
MIT is a jock school the secret is out
famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the academic success, lurks an astounding amount of athletic success. Let me -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27
half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in September. I knew that this transition would be challenging. Juggling all of -
Blog / Uncategorized
hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses
of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I ... it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
last concert
the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much ... years of my time in college of course 5 mics wasn’t enough, so we also -
Blog / Challenges
i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid
It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of -
Blog / Challenges
dont want to write ah
's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i -
Blog / Challenges
I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to
bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... "I love that feeling when" or "I hate that--". It's a bit of a catch ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my -
Blog / Advice
You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application
virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least ... guidance. While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo
without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it -
Blog / Challenges
speculation also a post about touching grass
questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... some truth to both of those explanations, but i think another relevant factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a