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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... application was lacking, or what I should improve on? If we waitlisted you, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  I am what one might call a "professional blogger", or what a liberal ... room, and the stubborn ExpressionEngine blogging platform with which I am currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during ... get the most of your time on campus. The first question I often hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  historically significant and culturally stupendous event: my birthday. Today, I turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I ... instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I'm a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... robots.Fun fact number 2: I'm an actor, albeit one with an incredibly short

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college. So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during Orientation, put myself on their mailing lists. But seeing how i'm still evading

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high ... chemistry on your own! A quick introduction to my recent kitchen escapades: I have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... Camp was not at all what I expected. It was both harder and easier than I ... actually print out when we told it to do so, I still felt like strangling my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one ... student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  Call it big-boned or call it taste, but I've always loved [annotation ... ??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I ... in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... -so-closet romantic and beautiful poet, who has drunk more milk tea than anyone else I ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli! I will probably write more about this later."]participating in hunt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... is that I was trending one time on Twitter (lol). Did you know that

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone ... mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I'm [Tim the Beaver]. And I'm not the only one. Not by a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their ... , although I may be a little gullible, their sign is so well written that I thought the art installation was put up by a real institute committee! I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey ... ;             I'm not sure

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  sun.   Elizabeth C. '13 and I watched the solar eclipse from ... before the event officially began. Through eclipse glasses, I was ... light. I fiddled around with the ISO and the aperture until I snapped a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017