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• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... hours, like 1pm, when you are aware of which behaviors do and do not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... with no distractions of cameras or telescope, and I’d let myself be on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Lobby of the Stata Center, the market is open Tuesdays from 10 am to 4 pm ... Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the commuter rail, which covers a fair portion of the state, is here ... the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below ... PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  matrix multiplication (which is used heavily in machine learning). On the ... last six weeks of the class were dedicated entirely to working on the ... that this is the kind of work I want to do after graduation. (And besides

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... matter is what is thought to account for approximately 22% of all matter in ... . From shopping and chatting at open air markets to sitting at one of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six ... the Main Chute of the Palisades! Hyped on adrenaline I decided to go ... MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  it to class, which is just across the road and up a flight of stairs ... , which is supposed to be a class on "Voice and Meaning: Speaking to Readers ... room of thirty or forty, which is not too bad. We talk over why the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... converting kiddie toys into a dragster to creating moving art for a museum and ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... "Course 8," which is the MIT-way to say Physics). To date, Denisse is by far ... really couldn’t have chosen a better neighbor school with which to do cross

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  ="MIT technically allows this. There's no cap on the number of classes you can take ... MIT is meant to correspond to 12 hours of work per week."]50 hours per week[/annotation] based on my estimate of their workloads. To estimate

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a ... have some sort of answer, which is usually a word or a phrase, like ... know of”. Also, the easiest way to learn something on the internet is to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  -production, which is the process of converting the puzzle and its solution from ... to write a puzzle about X”. There's a theme, which is one part of the ... . Which is everything, including all the dry details that'll be boring to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that material is useful to you or stupid and irrelevant and who cares ... is that you want to worry about, what you want to get out of this place ... choice of "this is what I am willing to give up", that wasn't a part of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  territory of Jean-Georges' seasonal lunch menu is closer to high-end bathroom ... neighboring tables hoping to catch an eyeful of celebrities on lunch break ... infinitely better with a slab of goose liver on the side. Jean-Georges will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn't have access to them growing up. I dreamt of seeing worlds beyond my own ... , unfortunately, fell very ill the 2nd day, so I had to learn some of her material

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be ... example, it is sufficient to write "B+" rather than "B+ (Final grade)" or "B ... to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress! What is it? The MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... just the way they would appear on your transcript. No need to convert

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... the way they would appear on your transcript. No need to convert them to

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015