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  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... (and might hurt it). I would recommend sending us a note (no more than a ... remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped ... caption? Anita and I riding in a “tricycle”: a common form of transport in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... undergrad members of management to come talk on camera so that I would have ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the ... undergraduates in July of 2017. The circumstances surrounding the closure were

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of ... they would probably attack me and “make the bed with [me] inside it.” I really like when things are clean, to the extent that I can’t p-set in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I ... flavor. After deciding to confirm my choice to live in East Campus, I ... in each fraternity's effort to convince freshmen to join. I'm not much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  was visiting alone, since that's how I would be experiencing them for ... really likes Taylor Swift, it felt very "So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off")) I had no clue what I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in ... , I figured I'd stop in at the Urgent Care clinic to see what they thought. When a nurse came in to see me and asked what I was in for, I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some ... Sustainable, and Best Craftsmanship. I figured I would feature the outfits ... When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many ... , but that isn’t to say it is all accomplished alone. In fact, I had an

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... tools that will be essential in building a successful startup, and I have ... . However, out of all the development I've ever done for a company (in my very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  Captains, and one for the MIT Admissions Bloggers team. So I thought it would ... ="attachment_115835" align="aligncenter" width="600"] As you can see, I was in the ... this as the reason for why i haven’t written anything in the past 3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I ... one of those kids that everyone thought would do great things in high ... are. They would see you laying in my bed, wasting time, pacing back and

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... virtually anything their heart desires. It's amazing. In case you're wondering ... presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... Wednesday I had marching band practice and no time in between class and work ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  can guarantee that it would look like complete gibberish to you. In the ... ) that I was eager to learn Old English. In a nutshell, Prof. Bahr said ... enrolled in it. (I'd like to casually mention that Old English was offered at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  Korea would defeat Mexico in the World Cup Challenge final. Overall this ... the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most freshman applications this past year in bold. Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  representing 65 teams from more than 50 schools participated in the first "P3" competition, which was held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 16 and 17. To win the P3, a project had to demonstrate how it would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it ... point in my senior year; I believed I was torn between Olin and MIT, but ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  shirt. If you see me, say hi, because I would like to talk about Homestuck ... : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023