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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... "yield"), we admitted 1474 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I ... precious. The upperclassmen started a pool about when they'd start to put off ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  first step is learning how to forgive myself and be okay with the person I ... I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... life. And she cut me off in the middle to say "Cam, those are things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ]https://youtu.be/0XfTtIvuWUg[/embed] I’ll be the first to say it: The swim test is ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS ... It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  , yes, I COULD learn how to cook. First, I had to learn the theory of ... generous first-week discount. Learning how to cook has gotten me excited, as ... “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  first from my high school to be accepted to universities such as MIT and ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  During the first MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) rehearsal this semester ... excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  could have believed possible from my first visit. My desire to convince ... ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When loading groceries into your backpack, make sure to put more durable items in first and to put fragile items on top. When I’m not careful about this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  stuff as possible to get at least something out of my first career fair. I ... racing against the clock and other students to try to get somewhere first ... super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  particular school was probably my parents first choice. It was much closer to home than MIT and I was the first child in my family going off to college ... day to school. Even in those days MIT announced their decisions earlier

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I just had was to write something along these lines and send it to the CEO ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  post was made to welcome the class of 2024 to campus and mark their first ... dilemma involved figuring out which aspect to illustrate and how. Our first ... September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021