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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  have to go to MIT? What about financial aid? You're not required to ... your best interest to complete your financial aid application now, so ... very nice in all of your interactions with us! Keep us up to date all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  Dear blog readers,  I have something to confess. I, Veronica P, am an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this ... testament to how often I get too lazy to pick out a real outfit and just

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... to be up to finish homework and go to class at 10AM seems to get me out ... from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the MIT experience unique. I've finally decided to get out my DSLR that ... numbers seems unintuitive. Buildings 3 and 4 should be next to each other ... building route sequence would be 7, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 14. If you're not an MIT

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... ’ll be using infrared data to learn how the Milky Way formed. But before I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  to be someone/something you're not. Sigh... ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  at home, as I'll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications. When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... 's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  while before it was time to get back underway. He also did me the great ... on my poetry. I think that, once I get back to a real laptop, I will be ... doing, but I am doing my best to at least get my head around the music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in ... unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many ... 's warm now, and that's all that matters. I'm going to go outside to read or do work or nap or something. So FIRST is going to have to wait. Maybe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  patrols. Your needs are our dedication and commitment to service." MIT ... MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  've extended the EA deadline to November 4 to compensate you for your trouble. If ... decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  influences your relationships with print material. Is a viewbook as useful to ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  slightly different thing, because you don’t have to get each painting pre ... A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  book directly to your room. In the hotel's courtyard, they'll have an ... geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would ... away), there promises to be possibly the best of the area's events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005