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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... those students of the particular culture, but also students who are ... same goes for religion. As far as the rest of me goes, I think that yes

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not ... learn properly, or do something of the sort, I don't know. But I know that ... it's something that's become so ingrained in me because of the way I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... -reject candidates because of word length, but we believe the word limit specified

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• 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 / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... is the pinnacle of what science fiction shows should look like ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• 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 / How to Human

  what to pack for the dorms but non-extensive so pls don't blame me if u forget ur toothbrush

  

  fall I found a way! A Mattress Topper: One of the main reasons I won ... most of my studying outside of my room). Genuinely the most functional piece of decor out there  A speaker: A very underrated essential! The

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 8, 2026
• 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 / 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