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  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  This week, I, like many other Indian American girls I know, binge-watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No. 1 trending series…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  content warning: extended discussion of suicidal thoughts.     i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008 musical about a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  blogger tag yourself: quarantine edition favorite hobby? looking in the mirror and wondering if i'm real

  

  if i didn’t tag myself as, erm, myself, i’d probably say i’m Afeefah. damn, i’m always working in bed and it’s SUCH an issue. who are you? let us know…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  I applied for biology Ph.D. programs this past fall and interviewed at several schools in January and February. The process was incredibly familiar⁠06 tbt applying to MIT >4 years ago…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  Over the years, we have occasionally published posts from students who didn’t get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and this). This is another one of…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are long gone. I was reflecting…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I’ve had the absolute privilege of working closely with MIT Admissions to help organize CP*, MIT’s virtual take on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i’m the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that post, we talked extensively about all the visual arts related things we have done at MIT…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting me write this blogpost. I love you and miss you a lot! My name is Mariia⁠50 Yes, my name…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of happiness this weekend :) My floor’s annual party, DTYD (Dance ‘Til You Drop), would have been yesterday…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  CP*,⁠63 called as such because it's no longer a weekend--it's over multiple weekends the virtual replacement for Campus Preview Weekend, was SO much fun. Sure, there’s no free food involved…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of CPW⁠65 Campus Preview Weekend: MIT's admitted students weekend 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a…

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while – or just know me in person – might know that I have one true love,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  At long last…the weeb⁠83 anime/manga/general Japanese culture fan representation that the Admissions blogs totally needed… Hi, I’m your resident weeb. I’ve watched some 60+ days⁠84 if you think these are…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom calls)…

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  I. Spent. AT LEAST 15 HOURS ON THIS GODDAMN CODE. Endless stretches spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to be cOnSuMeD by the…

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020