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  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this always carries…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  With my classes ending on Wednesday and finals starting the following Monday, my first semester here is abruptly coming to an end. I have preregistered for IAP and Spring Term…

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman’s a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it’s become a bit of a brain dump of everything…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I’ve stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close proximity to so many creative and amazing individuals, and right now is one of them. I present to…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up this post as eloquently as it could be, but the story below has been bouncing around my head for…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I’d last been home. This past Thanksgiving break, as I turned into my driveway as I had…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  Last year, I sat here on this weekend after thanksgiving feeling anxious, impatient, and stressed. Applications were getting chugged through, interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and…

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  ~written last friday about last friday~ Today was a really happy day. It’s days like these that make us remember why we love it here so much. (The first part…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating, training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that, as a full-time student…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset. And amidst all…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  woke up this morning, layered on two sweaters and a jacket, and went across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES conference is happening all…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my friends and ask how they’re…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a cloudy morning…but wait, there’s more. Do you see what I see? Take a closer look at…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I’m…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

    Friday night I went down the river to the annual MIT- Harvard men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are DIII, so it’s rare…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Saturday, November 11th, 2:33PM I’ve been struggling to blog lately. Not out of writers’ block–I truly always want to write, but mostly because the positive things I want to write…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Barcelona, IAP 2017   College study abroad programs are really great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s possible to do so on a college…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Without a doubt, I think every student here can agree that problem sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here is my normal setup: I always…

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017