FAQ / Life and culture
What other student resources are available?
MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
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FAQ / Life and culture
What kind of student support services are available?
Being a student at MIT can sometimes feel like drinking from a fire ... the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of -
FAQ / Life and culture
What kind of study abroad programs are available?
Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a ... spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January? How about combining a study-abroad experience with an internship in -
FAQ / Academics and research
What kind of things can I do during IAP?
If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... years, IAP has given MIT students, faculty, and staff a unique opportunity -
FAQ / Life and culture
How many students play sports at MIT?
program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during ... club teams and dozens of intramural sports available. Whether you're a potential Olympic contender or if this is the first time you've ever thrown a -
FAQ / Academics and research
What are Psets?
If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about ... , the entire course is weighted towards exams so that psets are seen as a learning tool. In other courses, psets are a substantial portion of the final -
FAQ / QuestBridge
Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?
If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... available once Finalists are announced. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist ... the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still -
FAQ / First-year application
Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?
We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... the Bulletin, is available free online and provides a comprehensive description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.
MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty ... —HASS—requirement), PLUS a technical core encompassing introductory biology, chemistry -
Blog / MIT Life
Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.
about the humanities and half as a coping mechanism to handle the eight ... . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.
A month and a half ago, I posted the first part of my series introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I -
Blog / Community Projects
[Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen
a Q&A with the team captain Audrey Chen! All photos by Audrey ... is MIT’s autonomous robotics team! Self-driving robots are becoming a ... ] Amber: So Arcturus is a pretty new club, yeah? Tell us about its formation -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants
After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... a conference for millennial entrepreneurs. It starts tomorrow and it -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.
Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT ’10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon – but enjoy… -
Blog / Classes
tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet
After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not write a mere sentence for months on the blogs. This makes the 6-month ... out of not wanting to, but nothing manifested even if I got a few lines -
Blog / Residential Life
meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators
. All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor selection buttons that don’t always light up, and they all make a confusing ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I -
Blog / MIT Life
Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters
“Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of ... , 3 syllables, and a literally self-explanatory spelling, even official -
Blog / Miscellaneous
every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them
semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I’ve spent my fair share of time on Tumblr as a teen, and I went through a dark -
Blog / Academics & Research
Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train
writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... 3.020 each counts as a half CI-M because of course 3 lore reasons"]one-and-a ... two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion -
Blog / Academics & Research
laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1
a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... spring, I started talking to a postdoc (Binbin) at MIT's ice rink ... long enough to practice jumps on a public session and decided to just