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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?
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FAQ / First-year application
How do I get on the mailing list?
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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 / How to Boston and Beyond
Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.
's, and Ben & Jerry's. Personally, for ice cream, I'm all about the JP Licks. Emack and Bolio's is where I go for smoothies, but unfortunately ... , but these in my mind are the big ones for Boston and Cambridge. ...And -
Blog / MIT Life
Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.
." And what am I doing for Spring Break? Well, I'm not heading east like ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors
for a movie to change [his] life." And I feel like, in a way, this movie ... screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched -
Blog / MIT Life
Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.
For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and -
Blog / Admissions
A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17
, econ, poli sci and others– for consideration and the top 100 finalists ... compete for some serious national recognition and prizes. In our first year ... need is a little curiosity and enthusiasm for a topic. This could be -
Blog / Admissions
Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…
This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do ... pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... are all alone sometimes, you are not alone. MIT is here for you, the -
Blog / Admissions
Maybe later
amazing pictures from last weekend and writing a super-awesome entry about the FIRST regional. But then Adelaide came by and informed me that it is GORGEOUS outside, and I am a sucker for warm weather. Winter is nice -
FAQ / Life and culture
What are the housing/dining options?
you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct culture and traditions. MIT housing is guaranteed for eight consecutive semesters of your undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live -
Blog / Events
Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa
white, milk, and dark chocolate. The truffles are three dollars for two ... should wait around for McDreamy or move on with her life? And wasn't the ... In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.
Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details ... opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors (that is, rising juniors and ... will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also describe -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet
), she came down in the audience and made fun of people for about twenty ... SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that ... de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
[Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'
-In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly ... behind the scenes to open applications and plan for the Fall 2025 STARS ... 20 high school juniors from small and rural towns nationwide to MIT for -
FAQ / Life and culture
Are the Arts active on campus?
the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and theater arts classes and performance groups. Students can participate in -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
Yesterday's tie was red, and my subcommittee was McGregor (also MIT '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango -
Blog / Challenges
first week class reflections i am home
would forget. i learned not out of curiosity and love for what i was ... everything i was and everything i would be. and for that, i am forever full of ... : learn for love of knowledge. and it's been working. i've come to terms