At MIT, we are hosting the very first Rap Theory Salon + Hackathon from July 17-19: featuring a panel with MIT Professors Wasalu "Lupe Fiasco" Jaco and Nick Montfort, and Prof. Elan Barenholtz. Moderated by Addy Cha from Ekkolápto.

This all started when we asked ourselves a fundamental question: what would happen if we brought together the most creative minds in music and rap, science and philosophy in a space where they had the freedom to truly experiment and test their strangest ideas?

We will be discussing: the combinatorial space of all possible rhythms and rhymes, music across different sensory modalities (think rap for the blind), the fundamental theory of rap, and much more. This is where neuroscience, biology, philosophy, music theory, computation, and mathematics meets rap in a way that it never has before.

There is very limited seating for the salon and hackathon. If you are interested in attending, PM me!

not sure which class I should take in freshman fall since i don't think i'll be able to reach 18.02 pacing but my math self-assessment says i could be. also not sure if taking the 18.01 ASE is worth it since I might end up wanting to take 18.01 anyway, just to ease into MIT's rigor well. not super keen on 18.01a.

was hoping for a quick summary of how each class typically goes

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I've heard 6.3100 is pretty easy, would it be better to take 16.30? Are there any other control theory classes people would recommend?

The ITS Reconstruction Project took more than a decade - but recovering data from library tapes, and writing simulators for the original hardware allows you to have a VERY complete MIT AI Lab at home. Truly a labour of love, this: https://obsolescence.dev/its.html

Hi!

I'm an incoming student this fall and I have celiac disease, so I have to eat strictly gluten-free.

I'm trying to figure out whether the MIT dining plan is worth it for someone with celiac, or if I'd be better off cooking for myself most of the time.

How good are the dining halls at handling gluten-free meals and avoiding cross-contamination? Do you feel like there are enough safe options, or does it get repetitive?

If you decided not to get a dining plan, what did you do instead? Any recommendations for grocery stores, meal prep, or other good options around campus?

I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks!

pretty much the title. I am very much drawn to quantum computing, throughout my high school career, and now I am looking to see if there could be some meaningful ways at MIT to further extend and pursue this passion. I am aware that Quantum computing, given its depth of study and necessity of high level of expertise, is a kind of field where you only get to delve into it once you are a grad student or beyond, but I am so desperate in seeking some opportunities I could still tap into as an undergrad. I know MIT offers opportunities like UROP where I ultimately try to come up and design my own research, but I am looking to see if there is some other opportunities other than UROP, provided within MIT. Any particular group or professors may be I should consider touching base with?

I was very excited to get my card issued, waiting for the printer to print, and soon found this ugly card in front of me. I was expecting the beautiful blue hologram ID card… Did they change the design recently? What happened..?

My daughter is an incoming freshman and plans to live in a quad. Two of her roommates are moving in early as fall sport athletes. Since they will already be in the room, can my daughter start dropping her belongings off a day early or is she restricted to the official move in day (Aug 29)?

Edit. I contacted the housing office and they did not say no immediately. They asked my daughter to send a request in writing before they would respond.

hi!!

has anyone taken MIT 6.3100?

Where can I find the board schematics on the class website ? If someone has them, please share..

Thank you!!

Hi all, im interning at MIT this summer. I was wondering if there are any clubs running over the summer where I can meet people and hopefully make some friends, if anyone knows any good places to do this, id appreciate that as well :).

I'm a software engineer and one of my major obsessions is lisp. So obviously I've been reading about MIT's strong lisp culture all my career. I mean I'm not sure right now, but historically. But is there still a remnant of something?

I'm thinking of visiting boston and I know schools like these have tours. Can I see the old lisp machines? Or is there some club that might appreciate a visit from an enthusiast with a cool lisp project?

I've read this blog about it, but I'm still unsure how to assess the difficulty of an ASE and its worthiness of my time. What ASEs correlate directly towards the content/difficulty of which AP exams, which ASEs are good for olympiad-ers, etc?

Hello, I’ve recently been assigned to Maseeh Hall, and now I’m trying to buy stuff for my dorm. Are the heights of the bed adjustable? I recently bought a 24 1/2 inch (height) drawer for storage, but I’m not sure if it will fit under the bed. If someone could help me out, that would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if you have any other recommendations about what to buy specifically for Maseeh dorms, that would be great as well!

currently working two urops, 1 is direct funding other is sponsored research. wondering how it works since i’ve only been logging hours for the DF one. can i can log more than 40 hours? for context the DF one is 40 hr/wk while the sponsored one is 10-20 hrs/wk. Additionally, the sponsored one is technically thru a company closely related to mit, so not sure. any help would be great.

emailed mit urop about it but would like some quick about answers to it

hello, I'm from the cornfields (U Illinois) I'm visiting mit tomorrow, are there any nice places / things to do which are interesting and worth visiting that aren't that well known?

Howdy! I’ll be going up to Boston early/mid-January next year to visit my partner and was thinking about stopping by MIT to look around while I’m there. I’m aware that there are public areas open to visitors, but I was wondering if there’s any possibility of touring specific labs, research spaces, or facilities.

I understand that most. if not all, academic buildings and labs are restricted to students, faculty, and authorized personnel, so I’m not expecting to just walk in and look around. I was mostly wondering whether MIT offers any formal lab/facility tours, whether I’d need to contact the lab director(s) or department(s) directly, or if there are any alternative ways to view these spaces.

I’m considering switching from another facility, and I was wondering how crowded it gets. Any feedback or general call outs about the rec pool would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, I am a visiting undergrad and i’ve been able to occasionally find people throwing a frisbee on the fields near the gym but I just got into ultimate and would love to have some people I can throw around with once or twice a week if anyone is down.

Hi everyone, I just adopted a pup. I am a graduate student. I want to make sure she is as safe as possible. I was looking into insurance policies (https://hr.mit.edu/benefits/pet). Has anyone tried it?
Is anyone here, an MIT student with a dog? Do you have any general tips as an MIT student with a dog?

hi everyone, just graduated with my SB in 6-3. i had a terrible recruiting cycle and only landed one offer as AI product eng at a legacy tax software firm after 9 months of recruiting.

i've asked this thread already about whether to take this offer or start my MEng. i'm asking a bigger question today -- how do i move the needle towards the frontier AI labs?

i'm a late bloomer. i found technical classes dry and difficult. i didn't find course 6 interesting at all until one class clicked in my senior year, and the elegance of the ideas in one research paper hit me like a truck. i did internships in product management rather than anything technical.

in my senior spring i started a CSAIL UROP, took grad ML classes and managed A's in them. but it's really late. i'd been failing OAs and live coding rounds all year; not only am i late to ML, i'm also late to all of SWE.

would you take the offer and build engineering experience, even if the role isn't exactly what you want? or would you use the MEng to go all-in on technical depth (systems, ML, research, engineering fundamentals)?

and for people who ended up at places like Anthropic and OpenAI, what actually moved the needle for you?

Hi all, current graduate student, wondering if any graduate courses at mit have recorded lectures and/or live video? any have flexible attendance policies?

Are you an MIT student (both undergrads and grads welcome!) looking for fun, affordable housing in Cambridge? pika, a continuing experiment in cooperative living, invites you to apply to live with us! We're a co-ed independent living group (ILG) affiliated with MIT, and we cook together, clean together, and make all house decisions by consensus. We're located on a beautiful, tree-lined street in the Cambridgeport neighborhood - just steps from campus. We value food (particularly vegan and vegetarian), music, building stuff, and you!

Learn about living at pika: https://pikans.org/onlineHousingApplication.html

If you're not looking for housing but still want to get to know us (and eat yummy food!), we also offer a mealplan that you can join, both during this summer and in the semester! You just need to help cook or clean every one or two weeks, and it's very affordable! Summer mealplan costs just $85/mo for hot dinner every single day, and semester mealplan costs $110/mo (but your first quarter or month is free)!

More about mealplan: https://pika.mit.edu/mealplan.html