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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first-year students. Housing differs across campus and we want each student to live where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence
• FAQ / Interview

  Do alumni conduct interviews?

  MIT's Alumni Association is involved with everything MIT—from providing admission interviews all over the world, to sharing in commencement exercises 50 years after their own graduation! They're members of one of the
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of ... and the holistic experience of students, especially undergraduates. S3
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to snow, turning

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The student activism of 1968-1969 — against the Vietnam War, against nuclear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with STEM maker culture (although I’ve had plenty of immersion with the arts

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App. Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to ... " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute's culture of entrepreneurship. MIT students (and professors!) don't just want

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in. Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as ... . (Inexplicably, the other one was Web Design instead of Wikipedia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and proud birthplace of both the Holland Tulip Time Festival and the Christian ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really ... front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on the small of your back, if you know what I mean. MTG (and MIT's other

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February, had probably the second best time of my life (getting accepted and ... than meeting new people and eating free food. Both of which I was fine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008