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  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... , 'junk.' More specifically, cool junk that MIT students snatch and hoard ... loading docks. 2. v the act of finding cruft and hoarding it 3. n MIT

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers." _______________________________ You may be surprised that MIT has a thriving HASS (Humanities, Arts, and ... professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  The MIT.01 course, Intro to the Institute, has been very exciting to ... understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the following questions immediately. 1) When was MIT founded? 2) If MIT was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how, precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... be MIT-worthy that it might be worth sharing. First, I've always been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese... Kristina and I were teammates on the MIT Sport Taekwondo team ... . The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up ... fell in love with Chinese at MIT. And for a soundtrack - press play on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT ... to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  We’re often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don’t have any required classes but consider an ideal preparation to include calculus,…
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  affordable and you don't need a car. If you want to stay closer to MIT, though

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I ... modeled after a legendary MIT class in mechanical engineering, 2.007, which Woodie started teaching at MIT in the early 1970s. For decades, 2.007 has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of course, most MIT classrooms don't have whiteboards — they have chalkboards. And there is one really, really cool thing you can do on chalkboards

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions ... impact of these changes on credit placement at MIT. The first thing you should know is that MIT has always awarded relatively limited credit for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  intimidating, so I have put together a complete guide of all groceries near MIT ... carry as many groceries. Subway From the Kendall/MIT subway station, you ... . Campus Shuttles MIT has free grocery shuttles on the weekends. You might be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  This past Friday was the MIT career fair, a huge event where hundreds of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... externship is hosted by an MIT alum. More information is on this page, but you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  is MIT’s autonomous robotics team! Self-driving robots are becoming a ... in joining or learning more about Arcturus (whether you’re an MIT student or not!) feel free to send me an email at auds@mit.edu! [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love ... many close friends that I met later in my MIT journey. And many of the ... if I have any skill, it’s definitely overloading myself. MIT is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... . Certainly students who don't report their ethnicity get admitted to MIT. If

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking ... receive $1,000 in seed funding for their project and mentorship from MIT ... to think.mit.edu for guidelines and more information. We’ll be hosting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  . When I entered MIT, I had a different name and went by different pronouns ... hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  It’s summertime @ MIT! I'm relaxing at home after graduating last ... . Who: 9 students from MIT and UC Berkeley What: Biking across the ... take a break from MIT and the physics I had been studying. That trip

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013