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Who is the Class of 2028?
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FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT recruit athletes?
contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in ... " which they may fill. Prospective athletes to MIT are subject to the same -
FAQ / Life and culture
What’s the MIT motto?
MIT's motto, mens et manus, translates from Latin to mind and hand. This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Does MIT offer an online degree?
MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning. -
FAQ / First-year application
What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?
-binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either round, aside from learning your decision earlier. Every applicant has to ... nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is MIT a diverse community?
MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from ... , and Success (OACES) is to champion the success of students who have faced challenges on their paths to and through MIT. This may include, but -
Blog / Athletics
How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process
The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... , and how I eventually committed to MIT. I’m not entirely sure how other -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code
(not by me) Explicit lyrics. Don’t play this in front of your church pastor. -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET
I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET. To check your decision on ... and password. In order to verify that you will receive a -
Blog / MIT Life
I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.
misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three -
Blog / Admissions
October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.
First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the ... fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... to do just that (some questions I have replied to directly and -
Blog / Classes
classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies
, it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... 'll form the relevant neural pathways to be able to readily recall this ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far -
Blog / MIT Life
On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison
extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other ... else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk -
Blog / Residential Life
meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators
Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I -
Blog / Life after MIT
Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)
Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each ... they will bring to any college they choose to attend. However, the more I -
Blog / Academics & Research
class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy
intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to ... edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... triplets of numbers where the first two numbers add to the third L = {w -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops
beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... unexpected diversity, I was shocked to find we also have our own frequency ... --” “You forgot to ID.” “Alpha-Mike-0-Golf-Uniform-Sierra” (AMOGUS) “Pretty -
Blog / How to Human
at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure
This weekend, some people from MIT SAAS went to Yale for the South Asian Youth Initiative conference. The purpose of this conference is to create community for South Asians and provide a space to talk about -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
glassblowing & me a series of memories
The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you ... is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like -
Blog / People & Identities
fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters
desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease never will I force myself to live that way again. Or so I said. ... begging I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think