MIT PRIMES is a free, selective, year-long after-school research program serving high school students who live within driving distance from Boston. Students work with MIT researchers on exciting unsolved problems in mathematics, computer science, and computational biology.  They are selected based on their qualifications and solutions to an entrance problem set in math and/or computing.  (MIT encourages those who have solved at least half these problems to apply.)  Admissions applications and letters of recommendation are due December 1 for decision in early January.  To find out more, check out web.mit.edu/primes.

In mathematics you don’t understand things,
you just get used to them.  – John von Neumann