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• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this ... quite vibrant food culture beyond this. Out of all the undergraduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e.g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  ...relax, unwind - get ready for the hustle and bustle of fall 2008. It's been an ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with ... different. I am of the opinion that there should be a latency between what we ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  should be completed as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a ... us directly - we will verify the accuracy of the information you submit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... ’s a timelapse that I recorded last week of me cleaning the 6

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure ... ’ve seen all week. From the ululating screams of the women followed by fluid ... feelings were often buried under the breakneck pace of classes and piling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  me refine it a bit. They asked me what the purpose of my request was ... used a tiny canvas instead of the ones included in the grant. [caption ... is a painting I created to explore the use of color, light, and shadow

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  brother of the Zesiger Fitness Center"] Alumni Wang Fitness Center ... of Wang are like the backrooms, and after taking a few turns, you end ... double the amount of PE points (4 points! I’m halfway done). Included among

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  -Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think of the Nobel winners, such as Prof. Wolfgang ... sandwich. A few days later, Jimmy brought me a bag of the nicest corned beef

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have ... structures, where older people 'match' with younger / fresher members of the ... 'famline' structures. hackmit, the club i used to run, had our own set of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  fire by the mouth of the quarry. Some people heated up food and roasted ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the ... adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn't accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here.  Some of you may feel

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the ... chicken coop in the wooded area of our backyard. My parents have always

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... asking for the two letters of recommendation, cause I felt intimidated by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016