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  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  I hope you like what we’ve done with the place. Seven years ago, I welcomed people to the “new” MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen had you come here…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  As you probably remember, we are launching the new MITAdmissions.org soon! As in: this Thursday, midmorning. Right now, we are finishing up migrating over 5,491 old blog posts. Also, our venerable…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  It’s been four days since the beginning of sophomore year. That means a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are about to get incredibly busy again…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on the…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second-least-favorite day of the year, after…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  …Don’t they have bootcamp or something? *written by Karen C. ’20 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal – MIT is…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  As I’ve mentioned here, here, and here, I’ve been spending my summer leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions.org. Although we are two separate offices, we report…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since I moved to Michigan for…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA TURTLE!!!! AHHHHHH The summer before our freshman year, we were walking with our mom near the shore…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common path of UROPing on campus…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she had helped choreograph, perform,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger playlist, and we did. Here it is – listen to it while you read this post! This summer,…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C’20 and Ashisha P’20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it! Over the past three…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It’s a longstanding…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the world.…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  We’ve gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I’m posting them. I want to be clear that there’s no reason to start on them now,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays – hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays about as I was…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new mit.edu. It was designed and built by the same agency, Upstatement, that is redesigning admissions…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018