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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  medley of the Hercules Muses songs!  This video came up on one of our You ... We are in our senior year of college [annotation note="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  you sometimes see on the sides of old buildings, presumably there so ... basilica's buttresses: Here are the boys on one of several spiral ... course, the feeling of being up there can't be captured on camera, but here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  that will appear or disappear because of what MIT tells you on Thursday ... end of the weekend, the puzzles culminate in an on-campus run ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  a surprisingly relevant fashion. ELL: Make a decision on what type of ... make the news section of that newspaper you pick up on campus look pretty ... A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... still have a couple of friends in it, and most of the work will be on an ... space mission concept that we’ll work on. Regardless of how the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  about him, and she, of course, looked him up on Facebook.  As she ... ’ve developed a crush on. In the years since, Lana Condor (of Vietnamese descent ... .  Yesterday, my mom found a photo of my boyfriend and me on a spring break trip

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  bus ride and we played lots of fun road trip games on the way. Even ... on my back now), of music blasting on Roberts Field, of sunsets at ... Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  . The package arrived on August 27th, earlier than most of my peers ... For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  one of the most amazing places on this oh so amazing planet ... , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  of my personal goals and habits, and decide on what actions I can take ... Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real ... you and I are on opposite sides of this, because I'm a natural homebody ... everyone on [annotation note="The amount of times we used the said TikTok in

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  ring off, on the same trail in the middle of the same forest 3,000 miles ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love ... an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends ... of Sam, Laura, AND Ben Jones' Mom), we set out on our missions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four ... . Convenient location on campus – Maseeh is located in the middle of campus ... of snow will accumulate on the inside of the window. 11. Convenient

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in ... bringing it up then. By the way, congratulations on graduating. Senior Wow

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... program, supervise a group of postdocs and students, and serve on ... the back of a stranger’s car at the crack of dawn on New Year’s Day. We

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  the notes app on my phone begs to differ. maybe it was a fear of failure ... eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... overheard snippets of conversation between students that remind me of past

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021