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FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of -
Blog / Events
This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)
🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very -
Blog / Classes
contradictions too much, not enough
from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long -
Blog / MIT Life
catching up what are you doing over the summer?
our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t -
Blog / Residential Life
[guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017
in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on -
Blog / Challenges
A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths
For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"
“intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
, or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.
distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when -
Blog / Events
Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner
note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to -
Blog / MIT Life
What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt
.[/annotation] That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)
-illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It ... hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of -
Blog / Academics & Research
21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT
a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped -
Blog / Academics & Research
back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing
[/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom -
Blog / Community Projects
[Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen
the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine
Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting -
Blog / How to Human
love languages in the little things
Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation ... . Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year