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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  . Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to ... issue of class size versus # of applicants - but in the end you have to come to that conclusion on your own. As you know from some of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at ... closely as Jeff, Keith and Liz explain how to solve some of the unsolved

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of ... ; Whereas the commitment of MIT to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit ... have significantly contributed to the fields of computing, molecular

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... means for me; trying to get seven hours of sleep, eat at least two healthy ... forget to stop and appreciate where I am, and the curious mixture of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  of songs and have them sung to your sweet heart/friend/sorority sister you really wanted to embarrass (uh...) in the middle of class. By far ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... a good answer to this question. Part of it is that I haven’t quite ... the kinds of interesting stories which people desire to read. My main

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better ... overcame their jealousy and found their way to being genuinely supportive of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... efforts at MIT, and TESS is going to revolutionize our big-picture of these ... building detectors designed to make sense of radio light, x-ray light

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  different types of food you can have brought to you when you go to MIT. I ... option of posting "__________ ordered __________ from CampusFood.com" to ... friends care what I'm eating for dinner. Now I have all sorts of time to do

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... trip to Maker Faire NYC, it's more fun to split the cost of gas than it ... knowing where to park your car between safe periods. Most of the time, I can

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the ... tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  generation of MIT students. CPW will be all kinds of fun. Click here to browse ... would be good to have at least a rough outline of what you'd like to see ... floor of the Student Center. You'll introduce yourselves to us; we

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to ... get to some of the area’s most fun and picturesque spots, including the ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency ... of my way to put myself in situations out of my comfort zone though

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  attending either ETH or the University of Zurich, from undergrads to Ph ... a trip to Barcelona with a bunch of my dormmates to watch my suitemate ... Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every ... ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete with a nice swimming pool, and even though we had to inflate a couple of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015