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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge ... Battlecode real-time strategy game. This is a one-month hardcore coding skills contest for both beginner and advanced coders. It's a programming project
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... second semester is similar, except that if you pass, you get a letter grade of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  time I owned a bike, I was nine years old, The last time I felt comfortable riding a bike, I was nine years old, and In the past decade I have ridden a bike exactly twice: once on an eighth grade field trip (I lost

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  the most exciting things about being a student at MIT. The flagship MIT student research program is UROP. When you do a UROP, you find a professor ... earn patents. Research labs at which you could pursue a UROP include
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse ... , a faculty member, is actually one MIT's Nobel Laureates. He won the Nobel along with two other MIT alumni a few years back. From the MIT News

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  (and maybe a little text here and there) So pretty much July 4th was ... where I lived my freshman year. Here are a few pictures and videos from ... : Movie 1 Movie 2 Tom is a grilling MACHINE. Some friends pose while

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math/science teacher and a humanities/social science/language teacher. We accept QuestBridge applications without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little ... your room to how to decide whether you should go to class can be a ... until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  A little over a month ago, the American Astronomical Society posted the following announcement: I originally became a AAS member in order ... . On Valentine's Day, I got a message saying that I'd been accepted, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... on February 29th, [annotation note="A shame. One year away from a truly glorious date."]1968[/annotation]. Random Hall also has a tradition of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the Infinite. MIT SAFER^2 was advertising a "One Night Stand for Student Rights," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  Hallo blogger faithful! Undoubtedly you've noticed that the times, they are a changing. The air is crisp, the trees are ebbing into their ... give you Snively's 21st Birthday as seen on Conner 2! Watch and see how a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was ... ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks ... nab sophomore standing after one semester, a la Chris S.). This gives

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a ... around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in ... baroque string quartet ended up sounding a little bit like a cross between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... purveyors of engineering spectacle–are no exception. This year, there were a ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each made our choices and organized them into a bracket: Allison: I Heart

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005