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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  you eat. At MIT, you may choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook ... both!) Just like our approach to housing, we give our students options
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was ... 's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• 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

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  just took them. because I knew I wanted to take them more than I cared ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although ... but I knew I wanted to go into the next semester differently. I didn

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner ... spontaneously gathering people to celebrate took walking 20 feet from my room. it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• 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 / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... work that i do not expect to get paid for or graded on; it's work that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to ... top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... Business School, neither of which I've ever been to before. I really wanted

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• 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