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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without: My Mom…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like that. “How can I…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially become a mosaic of all…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  According to the admissions profession’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices, May 1 is the “National Candidates Reply Date,” the agreed upon date by which students reply to offers of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the “Murals of Senior Haus” exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the second floor of…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Nearly three years ago, I published a post provocatively titled “CLAAASS,” now known as “Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources.” This post expands on CLAAASS to discuss…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to code a lab called Autocomplete. It was about implementing a data structure called a Trie (pronounced either “try” or…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2018. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  Content Note: This post contains mentions of death, depression, and anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group of MIT students this fall, the characters talk…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love irl) from the guy who wrote THIS seven months ago. Enjoy :) _,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,_ So last time I poured out…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  — Collaborative Post by: Gloria Chyr ’20, Bettina Ankhurst ’18, Emanuel Perez ’19, Caroline Mak ’18 —   MIT has a food access problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these decisions have been made. But, if you’re reading this,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  Two years ago (wow time flies), I went to CPW, and I came away feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a mystical fog of technological…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  == Guest Post by Spencer Pantoja ’20 == When I was 14, I “knew” I wanted to be an interior designer. When I was 15, I decided I actually wanted…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library – Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery photo cred: Nick P. ’20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the (almost) halfway point of…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  It’s finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay.…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a week after MIT’s. But, I ended up taking an additional 2.5 days off and embarked on a…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you. Editor’s notes were…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that rush-burger-making season had begun: “girlllz…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018