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• 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,⁠02 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 ago⁠12 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I’m kidding, mostly). Let’s answer the top five questions people ask me when I introduce myself: Name? Theo. Year?…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That’s over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I’ve stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and swaddled long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than everyone else due to…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It’s the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It’s cold, so you…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  FIRST SNOW!!! OH MY GOD IT SNOWED

  

  GUYS GUYS GUYS SNOW FELL IT’S SO COOL photo from Jeffery L. ’23, my favorite roommate <3 photo from Jeffery L. ’23, he is the best roommate edit: i now…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in Random Hall. I realized that when I was browsing the blogposts, I didn’t really find a lot of recent…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it’s been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars, friends, classes, activities… but most of…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  One Minsan sa may Kalayaan tayo’y nagkatagpuan May mga sariling gimik at kanya-kanyang hangad sa buhay Sa ilalim ng iisang bubong Mga sikretong ibinubulong Kahit na anong mangyari Kahit na saan…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven’t been blogging as much as we would have liked).…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  I like to tell myself that I’ve escaped my high school demons. That the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn’t still make my…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019