Financial Aid Response Questions

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I know I might get a more thorough answer if I asked the Financial Aid people directly, but I wanted to see what other people might have done.</p>

<p>There is a July 1st deadline for further financial aid forms, including Loan Counseling, Self-Help and Outside Award, and the Student Information forms. I clicked on them today, but was told that I was unable to access said forms due to an “invalid security certificate” from MIT’s site. The same thing happened when I logged onto myMIT and tried the “Loan Entrance Counseling” link.</p>

<p>Message:</p>

<p>An error occurred during a connection to mitsis-sso.mit.edu.</p>

<p>SSL peer was unable to negotiate an acceptable set of security parameters.</p>

<p>(Error code: ssl<em>error</em>handshake<em>failure</em>alert)</p>

<p>Is this error due to my not yet having an MIT “identity”? And will the Next Big Mailing contain the directions for accessing this identity? Has anyone else tried this and/or gotten the same results as I did from different MIT forms?</p>

<p>Any response greatly appreciated. I just want to make sure I’ve actually…y’know, officially <em>enrolled</em>. D:</p>

<p>-Kai</p>

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<p>Yes, you need a Kerberos identity to get MIT certificates. You’ll get instructions for how to get one when you get your NBM. Don’t worry, just wait a few days!</p>

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<p>And once you have your Kerberos ID, you can go [url=<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/index.html]here[/url”>http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/index.html]here[/url</a>] to get certificates for your machine.</p>