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  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when you shoot for the moon, you…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  I like standing at the edge, stopping there and looking down at the valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing the raw scale of…

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  [i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a significant impact…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by MIT MINCE ⁠06 a cooking club that hosts pop-up…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade,…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  I have never read any of Marie Kondo’s books, nor have I claimed to, but I feel like we’re connected on at least some minor spiritual level. Although it’s definitely…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it’s the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with the “nerd culture” that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to announce Regular…

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed that quantum phenomena, as absurd as…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My GTL⁠20 Global Teaching Labs, a program where students can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it’s been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove those feelings to the…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then I remembered that I submitted…

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an assignment for 2.007, which…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and Taxes”. It’s a CI-H⁠64 Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  goooooood MORNING YALL 🌞🌞🌞 …is what i told my team at 6:30am in the morning after staying up until 1am (skull emoji – selena) to sort out the final logistics…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you’re excited, because this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three different MIT…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025