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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?"

  

  , passionate people. Go figure - I just described the vast majority of the ... competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest ... issue of class size versus # of applicants - but in the end you have to

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

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime ... until a few days after the holiday. Please do not send multiple copies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery ... lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of ... team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of ... team can answer and the other team gets to hear the rest of the question. Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... to me an article that he found while perusing the most recent issue of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  MIT thus far.   the weight of the world felt so heavy i was ... 'm still processing the  fall I've been working really hard to take care of ... realizing the status of my mental state: I was super surprised to find that I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting ... this summer. In the beginning, I braved the Boston streets in a week of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I ... note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my ... rainwater hasn't already. The warm days of summer have already breathed their

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year ... but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my ... their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... wanted to do during the school year, without the weight of "oh why am I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter leg in Ahmedabad, the site of Gandhi Ashram. We braved death many times

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... mixture of the prolific and the poignant, catering to all tastes and ... and situation comedies they follow, the activities of their friends and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  of them out :) The Painted Burro - This was where I went with my ... "]Davis Square[/annotation], which is pretty far out of the MIT bubble. We had ... added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  of papers and a lighter into the courtyard alone. I didn’t care who was ... , anything that reminded me of the things I’d decided to leave behind. As I ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... without frontiers. The ______ Game This game takes the name of whoever ... the least inhibited person. He or she should get up in front of his team

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those ... ’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you ... individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... my room, the smell of rush burgers and cigarettes that I never smoked

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the ... Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014