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• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... fall semester on a bit of a low note, but break gave me the time i needed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to ... the other hand i think there is a portion of mit that does know how to ... and now i have a chunk of work to do for my urop but it's the weekend i

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and check the Orientation slack so you don't miss any of these deadlines. 2 ... people, international students only make about 11 percent of the MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  The Bebras Computing Challenge (American homepage, international ... than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  international students.   Hi everyone, The Office of Admissions is ... ’s see if I can answer some of the most common questions we get every year ... of the Regular Action period. In previous years, anywhere from 150

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... the biochemistry of farts. So, you know. Grown up stuff.) Wake up ... Cards with the boyfriend on his janky couch that is somehow missing 60% of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  used by a variety of colleges. It has all of the basic e ... type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you ... Gmail or MIT interchangeably, all from the comfort of your pre

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish ... half of the floors are designated cat floors -- this allows folks with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... over the summer, and by the end of each semester I would be extremely

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... cite the FIRST robotics competition as one of many excellent and ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last ... ton of fun, and I am so happy that I have my beautiful brass rat! The Year of the Bro Tanks So many bros. Minimizing Finals I've started

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time while others swear by them. I've been at both sides of the spectrum and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... , I will highlight some of my favorite events of the weekend! The Stata ... exciting. I toured the actual laboratory, how cool is that? I even got all of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... "]machine learning[/annotation] algorithms, and the minutiae of [annotation note="6 ... .004, Computation Structures"]what happens inside the processor of a computer

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn ... , unfortunately, fell very ill the 2nd day, so I had to learn some of her material and teach 9 out of the 10 days mostly on my own. (don't worry, she

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of ... take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I’m writing this of course. But I can’t find the motivation to study. The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  of the walk from Hayden Library to the intersection between ... . In the last week of January, I visited my younger brother in Los ... romantic relationship and raising kids aren’t the same, of course, but the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of ... Family Weekend. I had a 6.01 pset due Sunday night, the last part of a 6 ... the 14.02 pset and half of my 6.01 pset before Friday. But Friday came

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014