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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  I thought I would be okay a whole three weeks out, but even during FINALS the symptoms are presenting themselves clearly: Playing guitar for three hours. Aimlessly skateboarding down my…

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge for the past few…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I’m given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of final exams. Here at MIT,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I wanted to take the time to reflect on what these past four months have meant…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  content warning: multiple mentions of suicide.     the friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close friends from the philippines died from suicide,…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there four years ago when we were seniors in high school, and we’re sure many of you are…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  it happened again. after finishing my second round of midterm exams, i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and presentations, dance rehearsals and shows and workshops,…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <   You can log in using the same username…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It’s time to Later today you’ll get more information about next steps for admitted students via email and MyMIT. But for now, go celebrate!  

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will…

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category,…

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  As we approach the lacuna between when decisions are finalized and released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog a week as i’m currently working on a semester recap video blogpost that documents…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  So, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up…

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  Earlier this semester, I met with Junot Diaz, acclaimed author and professor at MIT,⁠18 a nice MIT perk is that you can just email most professors and they'll usually respond,…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I’m Jude – I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out…

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  It’s my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday was a few weeks ago⁠28 I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT's grad student run…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  Hi everyone! It’s good to be back here, on this familiar platform but very different website. I’m so not used to it that I still drafted this post on Google…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  This is a post by my good friend Claire, she’s an insanely amazing human being who has dreamt of being an admissions blogger since August 2016. Today Claire has achieved…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019