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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To ... your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early ... ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... stereotypically like rules. They provide formal systems with which to navigate the ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and the only one on my floor. As hurricane Henri made its way to Rhode ... CourseWare']OCW[/annotation] to prepare for my [annotation note='Single Variable Calculus']18

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself. going to onboarding meetings where people talk about company values

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given ... how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... spent months pondering and debating every possible answer to these

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are ... break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all-expenses paid day trip to New York every February! Each year, the events of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... are gender and race? What happens when we start to measure and model ... gender and race in urban computation? This course introduces students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I’ve hit that milestone this semester and would like to share 21 thoughts I’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into ... bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always ... superglued to my finger once***. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve met ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  an email to these students with this information as well. We use MailChimp to send emails to prospective and admitted students. MailChimp requires that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without ... I skip pistol class to fly to Los Angeles (don't worry, Mike is cool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  not available. We will reach out to these students with instructions on how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The ... yet – you need to read some important info below. What is it?  The

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013