FAQ / Academics and research
What’s the Deshpande Center?
the marketplace.
The center empowers some of MIT’s most talented ... technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of
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FAQ / Life and culture
Is there a medical facility on campus?
MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical -
FAQ / First-year application
When are decisions announced?
of decisions. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.
that makes living here a new experience every day. One of those things is ... then, and in that time I have become something of a self-proclaimed master of Bostonian Biking. My BlueBikes account has counted nearly 1 -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator
Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to -
Blog / Events
How the World Cup Will Conclude Backed by Science
I like to think of myself as a fortune teller. And since predicting a tournament's outcome is basically telling a fortune, I've decided to tell ... , biased by virtue of my being a Ghanaian: And yes, all -
Blog / Events
This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)
🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very -
Blog / Residential Life
[guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017
in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"
“intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
, or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.
express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran -
Blog / Events
Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner
note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing
[/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom -
Blog / Community Projects
[Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen
the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine
Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting -
Blog / How to Human
love languages in the little things
Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation ... . Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year -
Blog / Challenges
The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)
later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of -
Blog / How to Human
the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?
, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real -
Blog / Academics & Research
Third times the charm or so I hope
-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... -- after our family friends from Australia moved out of California. They are the sweetest! Reaching the summit of a 11k foot mountain, Mount Baldy