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Biographical & personal information
that you use one email for all activities related to your application—including communicating with us and registering for standardized tests—so the email you list ... As you get started on your application, here are a few things that we -
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Social media
MIT Social Media Hub If you want a snapshot into what all of the different MIT communities/offices/labs/important people/etc are posting, the MIT Social Media Hub is your spot. The Hub shares everything MIT, from -
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Majors & minors
joint degree, or a double major. However, at MIT, the focus is less on ... the catalog for the gory details, or check out these handy major ... 're counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology can be -
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We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world through education, research, and innovation. We are fun and quirky -
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Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks
experience the hack.[/intro] At MIT, hacking refers to more than breaking into computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of hacking, the definition of hacking descends from a much older tradition of -
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[intro]¡Bienvenidos a MIT! Esperamos que esta página ayuda a cada ... objetivo de MIT continúa siendo el mismo: "ampliar el conocimiento y educar a ... a la nación y al mundo en el siglo XXI mediante la generación, la -
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Blog / Featured Blogs
An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…
. Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace -
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Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.
the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... wasn't a good deal for me at the time. You get lab experience, you apply ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for -
Blog / Academics & Research
If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.
! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted -
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neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?
For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... .) Things are going well in the lab, although I'm breeding a lot of mice right -
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Mind and hand
is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... involved the application of academic knowledge. I was thought of as a klutzy -
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How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in
math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since