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[liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

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[ — JANUARY 23RD, 2026 — ] [10:49am] It’s bad ideas weekend! We’re building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here. Much of yesterday was…

by Gloria Z. '26
January 23, 2026

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lorde made my nyc itinerary and i started blogger beef?

Hi blog! The vast majority of y’all were not here for the blogger meeting where Caleb M. ’27 and I had a heated argument over who had the better Lorde…

by Veronica P. '27
January 22, 2026

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wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

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– 7:34 AM – Good morning everyone! Caleb here, reporting live to you all from the sunny⁠02 relevantly, it's actually raining right now, but it's been sunny these past few…

by Caleb M. '27
January 21, 2026

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An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym, it’s only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few weeks as a…

by Allison E. '27
January 21, 2026

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i got a cat he is so small

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Note: i am working on a high effort long blog but this is too important of an update to not post imminently. I went back to visit my friends and…

by Anika H. '26
January 14, 2026

Blog / Life after MIT

my last semester is here AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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https://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/future.mp4

by Kanokwan T. '26
January 8, 2026

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things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

Some time last semester, I discovered that I had completely forgotten how to write to y’all. I think it stemmed from some internal rubric forcing me to complete my thoughts,…

by Veronica P. '27
January 7, 2026

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

Hello everybody! It’s high time that I take a break from all the deep, introspective, several-thousand-words blogs for something old, something old, something borrowed, and something I guess green: Blogger…

by Caleb M. '27
January 1, 2026

Blog / How to MIT

New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

This blog is to all the affirmers out there. Especially any that could help me (and my roommate) achieve my (our) dream of running MIT Affirm. Since my CPW,⁠05 Campus…

by Ellie F. '28
January 1, 2026

Blog / How to Human

Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of…

by Richard O. '28
December 31, 2025

Blog / How to Human

wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

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Where to go from here? To be sincere, I didn’t think I’d make it near. My twenty second year some life I’ve engineered to the good for all my peers.…

by Kayode D. '27
December 30, 2025

Blog / MIT Life

Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

People at MIT walk fast. Maybe this is an east coast thing, maybe it’s a college student thing, maybe it’s just an “I grew up in laid-back Hawaii and anything…

by Allison E. '27
December 29, 2025

Blog / Personal Travel

things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

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I had no finals this semester, so my break started before finals week—after the Video Game Orchestra Concert on Saturday, December 13th. I was off to New York City by…

by Victor D. '27
December 28, 2025

Blog / Classes

tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

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the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and…

by Boheng C. '28
December 27, 2025

Blog / Admissions

let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

It’s admissions season! To all of you who were that right combination of smart, kind, and lucky to be granted early admission to MIT, congrats!!!! I’m sure you’re off somewhere…

by Aiden H. '28
December 24, 2025

Blog / About Decisions

MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2030 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status…

by Chris Peterson SM '13
December 16, 2025

Blog / Admissions

Open Thread: Admitted Early

YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and loved ones. It won’t be long now until we get to…

by Decisions
December 16, 2025

Blog / Admissions

Open Thread: Deferred Early

If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you may have some questions, so we’ve assembled some answers to…

by Decisions
December 16, 2025

Blog / Admissions

Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2030. The comments on this post are an open…

by Decisions
December 16, 2025

Blog / MIT Life

being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

Boston autumns are beautiful, golden, apple-flavoured, short-lived. I blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have infiltrated the rain, and people have replaced tshirts with…

by Janet G. '27
December 15, 2025