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• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won
• FAQ / Academics and research

  When was MIT founded?

  Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked!
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Unfortunately, even with over 3,500 alumni volunteer Educational Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... relatively narrow area of research, i will also miss the opportunities i have ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the first two), started by Jonathan learning the critic’s monologue from

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ? this time, i’ll make the summer count  this time, i’ll be louder    ... ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... might be after the end of the semester']managing everything[/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for ... [annotation note="a job that involves setting the schedule for each season and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  FINALS the symptoms are presenting themselves clearly: Playing guitar ... around on the floor, filled with unnamed restlessness. Cleaning my room ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... her all the best and I really do mean it. She was taking some tough

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  this post as eloquently as it could be, but the story below has been bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of ... was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as

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

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , Maryland, down the road from Goddard Space Flight Center, where I'll be interning for the next four weeks during Independent Activities Period (IAP ... the hall. No classmates down the stairs. No classmates anywhere nearby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I ... for the reason behind my renewed vitality until I'd made it through classes for the day, but now it's Saturday night, and I'm still feeling

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... serious. I jumped off the couch, threw on my running shoes and took to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is ... cesium atom. Editor's note: The following is not for the faint of heart, nor the high of blood pressure, nor the diabetic of pancreas. It's the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the ... singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the apostrophe. So it would be "the abacus's beads." BUT if you have a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... single rooms. MacGregor may not look like much from the outside (it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going ... comment and I'll let you know. DID YOU KNOW? The entry title comes from ... sing things like "1776!" and he replies "When did Columbus sail the ocean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005