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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  contest for both beginner and advanced coders. It's a programming project ... that combines battle strategy, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school ... younger students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time. We arrived at the dock and waited around for a bit before actually ... me to appreciate color pairing and fashion. This is atypical for a guy ... , and racing, it's time for bed, so I bid you adieu and wish you goodnight.

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  . First, we have the ability to cook for ourselves, and that gives us a lot ... Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... pizza and bourbon chicken from the mall, so day 2 doesn't count.) In my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  week, we will be selling carnations and irises to raise money for the ... I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We ... Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  archery, dance, and sailing, all for slightly different reasons. Fire ... things do catch fire. And for every prop we spin and every move we try, we ... . The handling end is for the spinner to control the fire, and can be any

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women ... the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... documentary on the Math Prize for Girls here: </param > <

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  observations, ask for clarification and chat with the French students on a ... and l'IUP in Paris. So far, we've done word associations and sentence ... see words and sentences related to work, money, food, culture, and other

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  expressed were at once very resonant and very troubling for me on one hand, i ... of improving the world and used that as one of the primary criteria for ... (which might also be bad for the world) and when to do things for other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  "Why do you want to be apart of CodeIt?" and other things. For the ... other applicants and one would drive (aka type out the code for the coding ... links to all of the labs for the rest of the semester for Sundays and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family ... . Traveling I traveled a lot this summer. I was in the US for a while and went

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you ... school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to ... friends for a sunny walk for the sake of a torturous assignment; and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  (two words: big data), how fan culture and fan production works for no ... we get to go to events for free. The CMS department sponsored me and a ... -hop and samurai). Professor Condry, being fluent in Japanese, translated for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... actual official LEGO design, we'd rip it apart and build something new and ... spaceships, and even Ironman himself. Then 8 years passed. Three weeks ago, I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  you'll learn, stumble-upon and/or be run over by something new. While waiting in line for some iced tea this morning the two architecture students ... modular design, scalability and the potential and weaknesses of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  written a week and a half ago (about when Caltech's Fleming House came for ... . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  'll have a small reception for any students visiting MIT. The reception will ... that there will be many students around tomorrow for several reasons, including the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT), visiting other schools, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  bloggers blabbed away for awhile and everyone got to meet each other. Super ... finally, Matt and I stopped by the Battle Of The Bands before leaving for ... ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  finishing finals, with some students bringing their luggage and boarding ... % of annual time) where we go to class, typically weekends and days off are dedicated to "catching up" on work and usually IAP and Summer are

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed ... Hellooo I’ve been home for winter break for almost two weeks, basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010