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• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... getting in the way of their schoolwork.
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  chicks about to get eaten by a petrel until a tiny Adelie penguin runs in ... Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill ... now. i like to write (mainly poetry) and i am also trying to get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the ... while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common ... college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  than voice parts in which case you are forced to ignore some of the ... and harmonies that don’t exist in the original song to create a thicker ... lot of work - you need to be familiar basic music theory, learn how to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interested in MIT. My advice is not to let it get the best of you. If you are ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... interview, try to be especially flexible in your availability, as your EC also

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still ... would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... a few years before I came to MIT, I was confused about how things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms, decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  ago, where you get to see TWO plays or operas in New York for FREE with ... have to try a couple semesters before getting in. Danny's in the class ... basically a week long immersion in the arts! We did not get to participate in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  score, no matter how high it is, is not enough to get you into MIT ... , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or ... orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  could see, in my own projects and in my classmates’, how the constraints ... Department has long contributed to learning in the arts and humanities at MIT ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  addition to not giving up, though, I also constantly made plans on how to get ... . I want to speak up more and learn how to speak up better--in other ... -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  didn't know how to cook sushi or ramen.) AI bias might not matter in a ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... : Welcome to Microsoft In some previous years, the Microsoft micro

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  for during the regular semester. Want to learn how to speak in Tagalog ... acceptees to MIT this year. Congratulations! In order to ready the potential ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  Scrawlings We'll see how many of those I get to, but they'd all make good ... how to work the Internet. Today we all got an e-mail from Winnie ... -O-N-E. I began thinking of how I would explain this to everybody, but instead

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... to go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  , forestry, and fishing in Japan -> Bean -> Soybean The goal is to go ... generate an A.I. version to replace him after he gets into an [annotation ... to the point that he appeared on a Coca-Cola ad. He got a reference in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... , ranging from absolute flaming garbage to (at least in your opinion) pretty ... freestyle though, because sometimes you manage to get a line, or a verse, or a

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  questions 4 u about MIT but had to get in gear and out the door. btw I am so ... . Then, somewhere in between taking campus tours and discussing how to ... you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006