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• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about Kevin Gillespie and J.R. Hildebrand. In 1997-98, a student named Kevin ... . Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

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

  

  to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an ... this activity. If you’ve been following my blog for a while and you

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... would roll, and I could move on with my life. But…no. Mentally, I can ... , here I am. Blogging for the first time in three years. A lot has changed

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute... the other day

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  photos already. I have a friend that I usually shoot photos with, and one ... has a joint program with!), working on programming for sonar data. I ... cool things with my time. So I finally cleaned, and more importantly

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a liveblog, updating this entry throughout the day with thoughts and stories ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  , recommendations, and Secondary School Report. Please note: Along with our MIT Quest ... for you. If you are selected as a QuestBridge Finalist, you will be able ... If you’re a QuestBridge Finalist that didn’t rank MIT, you are
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... Admissions] and give them a powerpoint before we could proceed with anything ... went back and forth for a bit trying to decide whether our bebe should be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  neither). Please look out for this message and respond to it quickly, so we ...  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I ... semester is near. Go have a nice holiday. And see you next year!   ... .” My family rejoiced, my friends cheered. Looking back, I can’t believe

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... people who are not interns staying for a month) and there is never any ... weekend eating photogenic desserts with a friend who thinks everything

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... and can’t get up… “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  with two coats of Parisian. Ruth is opting for a subdued combination of ... and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... ! Ruth's room before phase one of painting, with a fresh coat of Institvte

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  domesticity. For matrimony. For a car that is safe and reliable. For a sidewalk ... , there is Pearl Street, and a woman is sitting on her porch. She is sitting ... smoking a Marlboro Red. I can tell without looking, because I remember

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  incoming presidents-Kate and Yuge-with a crazy idea: what if we ordered a 34 ... , and they responded with a level of excitement that I’ve come to expect ... for. A group of six of us worked for most of the evening and didn’t call

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  and drifted in a sea of Rachmaninoff and Debussy for an hour and a half ... The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  values. Yeah. I looked around and saw some students just sitting with their ... , and learn, they'll be ok with whatever grades that yields. A lot of ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  Building 6C (a Course 3—Materials Science and Engineering—building) is giant ... -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... company.)   And I bet you thought I couldn’t find a Pok

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  projects, do those last minute problem sets, and perhaps design a wind ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  , namely that he has purchased a Star Wars landspeeder and modded it with ... things that are unsafe for a child/baby/fetus. But it does look pretty cool. ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017