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  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting patiently since Pi Day to tell them that, unfortunately, we will not be able to admit any students from our…

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Phase I: Recognition I sit down on my bed. My heart is racing. I am anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at…

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross-registration helped me make…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  DISCLAIMER: I have no real, professional opinions about video games despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally, I write about video games from a…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at MIT and Harvard. I say this both because it beautifully expands the academic opportunities for students in each school…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right now, was forever ago. i was standing on the harvard bridge staring into a summer sunset,…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines with “Washlava,” a laundry platform consisting of IoT-connected machines. In this blog you’ll find two things: (1) my introduction…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  Admittedly, I’m not the best at keeping up with people. I’m pretty introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to virtual interactions. I can…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  A⁠41 not gonna lie i pondered just...inserting all the lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  I took a long break from blogging. I recently started posting again,⁠45 and will be posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy! but before this week, my last post…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to the person you were, or who you think you were. You can admire things that your past…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their undergraduates. Since it’s so long, I’ve…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled water on my laptop. it…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of adorable and beautiful things…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I’ve been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a Bananarama song called…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  It’s been one hundred twenty-five days since my dad pulled up outside my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags into the way-too-big…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  I enjoy productivity that’s tangible, so cooking is one of my favorite things to do. You get to put ingredients together…and then feed yourself…and feel satisfied that you’re being #healthy…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  As you’ve probably already read in Chris’ post, the blogger application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the past, all of the bloggers…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it’s strange to be having a blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for the coming application cycle.⁠82 This means both…

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020