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  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you can now drink that special fermented beverage that has basically been available to everyone in most other countries since…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It’s such good news, you should be elated — but…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were split over the idea…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  CPW 2019 is happening this week, starting on Thursday! There are hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure out if MIT is the right…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  It’s CPW week!!!!!!!!! (What is CPW? It’s Campus Preview Weekend, or as I tell all my friends back home who don’t know MIT lingo, Admitted Students’ Weekend. Admitted high school…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  on friday, loud, incessant bangs and whirrs of the never-ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6.033 report seem comprehensible. i look…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I’d say this, but I’m kind of bored. A combination of not being an athlete + a lighter class schedule + spring break + being a senior…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  It’s interesting that I’ve never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider looking in. However, in late February a protest…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  I texted my friend, “I feel like my frustration with 6.009 over the course of each week would make an amazing sinusoidal graph.” She said, “You should make that a…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus has been closed down. Yes,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should update y’all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  if rupi kaur went to mit milk and funny

  

  hi there it’s rona w. ‘21 your newest admissions blogger and sometimes i write bad instagram poetry enjoy —an intro post, kinda heart racing hands quivering cheeks flushing these late…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build up the…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for Technology⁠04 In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred to as simply 'Technology.' to flourish.…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  To set the mood: i’m so tired… by lauv & troye sivan   What a headache Where does the time go?! We’re somehow halfway through the semester already. I envisioned…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  look who i found in vienna hi joon

  

  05 joon looks much more aesthetic than i did in my picture jesus 06 in case you were wondering this is true outside of pictures as well

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran into someone in vienna today… hi nisha

  

  .⁠07 the dark&stormy is an s-tier drink. .⁠08 believe it or not, us being in vienna at the same time was completely coincidental.

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. ’20 did a hall exchange. a hall exchange is where two people, who live on different halls and almost always on…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I’ve been walking around with this weird feeling on the inside. As if goosebumps are embedded deep into my skin. Subconsciously, I’ve been feeling a…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019