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• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  1050 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of ... many people are on the waitlist? We offered approximately 3% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  join me on an all-too-familiar excursion. :-) (a closer look at the ... cluster that's deliciously quiet and empty at this time of night. :-) Okay, as we leave, we enter a hallway... at the end of which lies a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... had already been a couple of hours since landing. I said I was on my way ... become a lounge of sorts, a gathering place for people on [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... feeling of being on the absolute same page with someone else, of being known ... ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  pace of life is much slower, and much more focus is put on plants, people ... you all! I’m Selam, the newest new blogger, and I’ve just joined the ... ’ve only just begun this IAP, I feel like I missed out on the period when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  Heyo everyone! It's Mimi again! I recently became a member of MIT's Educational Studies Program, a student group that runs a variety of educational ... 'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  . But pictures of interesting things on computer screens make for terrible ... yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of ... morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on. We walked into what would eventually become my new home, and there was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  as to make it one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in ... Friday (October 20). So, if you haven't yet, go on to MyMIT, get your EC ... , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  all of you 2010s on your way to MIT, stay openminded about not just ... lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... cyclical nature, the traditions as new to me as the fact of changing seasons ... A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... bill is a monthly flat rate, we have the luxury of leaving the fans on ... parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away He was full of great one-liners and aphorisms, but one that stuck out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  we are. Someone on Reddit made an interesting observation that a lot of ... , but do you go regarding each new person you meet with some degree of ... Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  Match (climax of the album), in which Chavo took on Eddie, and the loser got their head of long hair shaved by the victor. Eddie passed away on ... found this album freshman year of MIT and listened to it on loop during

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="400"] dig yer own grave on the front page of ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  semester of my junior year, the Class of 2024 got to go on the freshman ... . This sort of behemoth of an aquarium, simply doesn't exist at the New ... 't breathe. -- On the way to Monterey, I made this playlist of songs that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  ) are not frozen in time, they're a foundation upon which new members of ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my first entries, but I assume that I've picked up new readers since July '05

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016