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FAQ / First-year application
I’m taking college classes, do I apply for transfer admission?
The transfer process is intended for students who have finished high school and completed at least one year of college. If you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many -
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What student disabilities services are available?
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FAQ / First-year application
Can my school use Naviance?
We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of -
FAQ / First-year application
How do I request a fee waiver?
section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff
Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists, economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or ... deal in the habits of atoms and molecules, economics explores those of -
Blog / Residential Life
what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what
Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is my preferred method of decoration. I've covered pretty much every wall of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards -
Blog / How to Human
Trail Notes
triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more concentrated, more intense, though all of Alaska is like that – it demands full -
Blog / People & Identities
BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence
of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)
You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional ... community events, students learn about all types of design and related fields -
Blog / How to MIT
MIT-ish on being MIT enough
who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics conundrum, has thrown me into some sort of spiral of "not being MIT enough ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student -
Blog / Academics & Research
Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)
Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed -
Blog / Study Abroad
Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens
have had good reasons! As some of you may know, I've been studying abroad ... months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each ... the end of the year (Easter term). Since each student generally takes 5 -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Waitlisted
A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…
% pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course -
Blog / People & Identities
am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings
bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of -
Blog / How to Human
winning embracing positive-sum
for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
[Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24
During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the -
Blog / Residential Life
Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...
Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these -
Blog / Classes
9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?
of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these