FAQ / Life and culture
Is campus safe?
campus warning system, where students can opt-in to receive email ... offers shuttles day and late into the night around campus in Cambridge and
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FAQ / Life and culture
How hard are courses at MIT?
to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... peer network is a great source for support, MIT students can speak with ... getting in the way of their schoolwork. -
FAQ / Life and culture
What are the housing/dining options?
undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just ... might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends -
Blog / Academics & Research
Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT
effects can be SO cool! We watched some of the Pixar in a Box videos on Khan ... the surface of what you can do in AfterEffects, but we are glad we know ... in that community who have your same dream job can be really nice -- it -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…
My name is Evan Karlik, and I graduated from both MIT and Navy ROTC this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... undergraduates who are US citizens for success as officers in the United States -
Blog / Admissions
What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search
I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... inherent value of an educational experience on this campus, I also believe in ... country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is -
Blog / Uncategorized
Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!
excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I ... experience. This past Saturday, February 29th, I experienced something that I -
Blog / Events
The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…
set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students ... to know about a company. I was seated at a table with three other ... ’s projects, life in Cincinnati, the product design process, what life after MIT -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…
Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... hand in hand. But what you might not know is that MIT's original hackers ... of freight and passenger services nationwide. Written in Python, it -
Blog / Admissions
A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...
! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In ... mumbling to his 13 grandkids, "Youth is wasted on the young." In this post I -
Blog / Admissions
2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT
and RSVP if requested. Everyone here in the MIT community can ... there, we hope you are pumped for what the next few months have in store ... -togethers in their hometowns for students admitted to the class of 2020. These -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.
[by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the ... standards in New Orleans. Course 11—Urban Studies and Planning—is -
Blog / Admissions
Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something
A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received ... into fistfights in Matt's office. Yet decide we must, and ... : Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a -
Blog / Life after MIT
An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!
awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester. A bunch of my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... who used to be in our shoes so many years ago! I just kept thinking how -
Blog / Challenges
Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!
= awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days -
Blog / Events
Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset
Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French -
Blog / MIT Life
The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).
way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this ... and weight guesses will receive gifts from Bryan (Ha! I love hijacking his blog and making promises on his behalf!). Personally I am hoping -
Blog / MIT Life
Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions
course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies
the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below. ... . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted ... MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Kickstart My Art highest form of expression
There was a great article in the Tech earlier this week about startup ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of ... , and I'm currently a freshman studying Computer Science and Philosophy