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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may know about the Muti Water Project, an initiative I had been busy working on since…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised,…

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former students’ MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread.  We had a snow day and when I…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  Content warning: This blog post may contain terms that are considered sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  Last Wednesday, February 14th, 2018, seventeen people, including fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student…

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols. Like you know something’s legitimately famous when it has it’s own wiki. But it’s more than just…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re:MIT facts and information, and instead I just blogged my feelings (which isn’t all bad, I suppose) today I could…

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

  bye (for now)

  

  i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i’m doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester for me, but not in the conventional sense. i’m insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos lol) as a real-time…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS—EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a(n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and feelings on things, so…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week, disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved – it couldn’t just have been you who did…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually, there’s so many cool — FROSH: isn’t that the …you know … clothing optional … dorm?…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from a total of 984 students…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017