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  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I’m feeling some kind of way. I’m back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat land that is…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I’ll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I’m going to be leaving the blogs with a lot of stuff left unblogged.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from my cave of despair to blog again! I’ve made this post two years in a row at…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s resolutions. But I couldn’t…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other slew of things.…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a list of three things I learned this semester that I didn’t learn from my classes. How to use…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  Shuli Approved TM Playlist for this blog post: Taylor Swift’s Lover album, but you just alternate between playing “Lover” and “The Archer” over and over. If necessary to lighten the…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of “home” changed a lot for me. Today, I hung out with some friends from high school. We all noticed that we mellowed a…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media, along with fellow blogger Abby. Throughout the course, we watched countless films of varying lengths,⁠15 as short as…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  Congratulations! If you’re reading this post, you should probably be working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here, please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• 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