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FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT offer a foundation year?
MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in -
FAQ / Interview
Do alumni conduct interviews?
MIT's Alumni Association is involved with everything MIT—from providing admission interviews all over the world, to sharing in commencement ... most diverse, talented, and invigorating communities in the world. -
FAQ / Life and culture
What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field -
Blog / MIT Life
Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.
This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the -
Blog / MIT Life
Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.
Technology where she majors in brain and cognitive sciences, with minors in ... Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... in brain and cognitive science, with a minor in literature. She has -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Rush photos
I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... . In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words, so I'll let the pictures do the talking. These are EC Rush photos. In the next entry -
Blog / MIT Life
Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.
was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence ... Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb-shelteresque pantry are now looking pretty spare, so I decided to indulge myself in a -
Blog / People & Identities
On Reconnecting spending winter break in India
My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the -
Blog / MIT Life
From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity
We're at a strange point in the political climate where white ... publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge ... hatred in Charlottesville City Manager Louis De -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Waitlisted
This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what you need to do if you are still interested in MIT, and so forth. In the -
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Blog / Academics & Research
Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…
showcases student research in our labs here on campus and in the field worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in ... programs. UROP & Beyond: MIT Students in the Lab and In the World Friday -
Blog / Academics & Research
Randomness
Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon ... composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone living in a Francophone country, describing my work, my environment, my -
Blog / Admissions
Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.
After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries will include a brief recap of my time in Asia, a Questions Omnibus, a -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).
& Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a ... &A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition -
Blog / Uncategorized
Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list
naps than studying in my opinion. Add in the pretty comfortable green ... naps here. Dorm Room - what fun is there in that? Classes That Changed ... ’s Cafe- Conveniently located right next to the Koch Building in Kendall -
Blog / Academics & Research
Off to Zambia
31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which is in the northeast corner of the nation. Last January's D -
Blog / Events
Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa
In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely