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  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... just ask that you try to have a little patience.  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... , Simmons Hall has a bazillion little windows in order to make the building ... Sometimes MIT catches on fire. Ok, maybe not actually, but sometimes

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... light to be pretty" "Have you tried going on a boy detox? Aka being not ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  to has involved me working on abstract problems with my head in a book ... didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of ... and I are going to teach a class on behavioral economics for HSSP, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to ... taught me 101 reasons not to be a math major, while Sarah Tabacco and 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go ... already off to a rough start. (Although I guess spring break had not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  and the places that made you yourself. MIT wants to create a team (proof ... . Leave them on the SAT. You’re writing a personal statement and, personally ... the intention to burn us to a cinder.” It’s a little too much, right

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted ... [annotation note="I've got a final, but I don't need it to graduate, and I'm sure it ... Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the ... said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  waiting all too well. It's easy to sink into a sea of anxiety and focus on ... gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th ... information in the near future. Okay! Those are the essentials. Try to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  us deciding to play with Photobooth on a Sunday morning... You said ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we ... a bed?" And Mike Borohovski answered, "It depends on where/with whom ... a double and as such, my prefrosh will be sleeping on the floor, heh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant ... ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough ... people reading this can understand this experience to some level: a missed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023