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FAQ / Life and culture
What other student activities can I do?
You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own “thing” at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what’s going on around campus, or… -
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Where can I find parent info?
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FAQ / First-year application
Can I submit a maker portfolio?
The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that require creative insight, technical skill, and a hands-on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory… -
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Where can I find admissions statistics?
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FAQ / Life and culture
How do I contact a current student?
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FAQ / First-year application
Can I take a gap year?
We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students… -
FAQ / First-year application
How do I reset my password?
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FAQ / Interview
How am I assigned an interviewer?
After submitting your application, you will be notified if there is an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via… -
FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
MIT’s Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) include 26 fraternities, 10 sororities, and five living groups. With core principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office encourages and… -
FAQ / Academics and research
What’s the Deshpande Center?
researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of breakthrough products and new companies. In turn, those innovations can help -
FAQ / Life and culture
Are the Arts active on campus?
More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in 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 -
Blog / Events
Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.
I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month -
Blog / Admissions
Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15
organically in the form of a hobby, or perhaps an inspiring book. Others may ... in a wood cabin. As the raindrops patter on the window, you seek ... fairly incompetent in determining who you are or what you are capable of -
FAQ / First-year application
How does MIT consider extracurriculars?
We read applications from students interested in everything from apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…
I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…
conquering MIT are really great, but in my humble opinion, the most helpful thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a ... about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a -
Blog / Admissions
LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.
Have you guys all seen this silly thing? Yeah, I thought so. It already has its own Wikipedia page. I made you one. It will describe my life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!
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Blog / Extracurriculars
Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras
in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Chelsie ... -Lab trip leaders and the community in Miramontes are working on providing a ... sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing