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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... , manufacturing, testing, and operating a radio controlled aircraft to meet mission ... flight telemetry as applied to 2.4 GHz radio-controlled aircraft.
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT ... 've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to ... begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... almost any form, from how-to sessions, forums, lecture series and films, to
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don't wish to participate in varsity athletics, there are also more than 30 ... frisbee, you'll have an opportunity to exercise your body and mind at MIT
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about ... . Faculty vary as to the portion of course credit derived from psets. In some cases ... their best: A love letter to P-sets Michael C, '16 and Psets from hell
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  awesome monthly email newsletter that will keep you up to date on exciting things our current students are up to! We'll also send you important news and ... nonprofit organization we don't have funding to supply these types of items
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Boston’s Back Bay): The Glee Club and Orchestra are so fortunate as to ... recitation-room, is to be heated and lighted, and, through the kindness of President Walker, the musical societies will be permitted to place a piano

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a personal apology to the BC front desk (and also mother nature) for being

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... only wanted to do a partial computer science degree, meshing it alongside

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5:15ish"]9-to-5[/annotation] or latent anxiety about applying to [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  much." "You have too many jobs." "Rachel, just go to sleep!" "Is it ... ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... patterns. To the extent that this is true - and to the extent that Apple products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna ... . "What socioeconomic class would you say your person belongs to?" "Do you ... froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... involved with permitting MIT students to stay in their dorms when Harvard is ... has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower. Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go-to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a ... , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset of sorts, a time to renew life-changing resolutions, to pursue a ... , it just means that Netflix is about to add some new TV shows and movies

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017