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2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

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★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of being on the Class of…

by Teresa J. '26
March 28, 2024

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

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Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years,…

by Gloria Z. '26
March 25, 2024

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads, and nowhere is that more apparent than at Simmons Hall – my beautiful, spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball…

by Andi Q. '25
March 24, 2024

Blog / How to Human

B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

It’s been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an extensive tour of rooms on B1⁠09 For those who don't know us, we're Burton 1, the first…

by Amber V. '24
March 24, 2024

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

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On pi day, campus was buzzing with events. That morning, I even planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social, Laureates and Leaders Induction Ceremony, East…

by Kanokwan T. '26
March 23, 2024

Blog / Classes

Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

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I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the…

by Kayode D. '27
March 23, 2024

Blog / Classes

classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

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after long deliberations and email exchanges with the transfer credit examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at MIT. there are some key…

by Fatima A. '25
March 22, 2024

Blog / Announcements

MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 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
March 14, 2024

Blog / Decisions Day Threads

Open Thread: Admitted

YOU! GOT! IN! Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you’re walking on sunshine,…

by Decisions
March 14, 2024

Blog / Decisions Day Threads

Open Thread: Waitlisted

A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you…

by Decisions
March 14, 2024

Blog / Decisions Day Threads

Open Thread: Not Admitted

There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an…

by Decisions
March 14, 2024

Blog / About Decisions

No Ceilings next steps

Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot of buildings around campus, MIT would rather have pipes and wires and such along our ceilings than…

by Paige B. '24
March 12, 2024

Blog / How to Food

IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

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I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn’t cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado…

by Jessica Z. '27
March 10, 2024

Blog / About Decisions

Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

Tim the Beaver (the mascot costume) wearing a grey porkpie hat.

MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Thursday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s…

by Tim
March 7, 2024

Blog / How to Human

loveallurfriends <3

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Now Playing: Talk to Me – Cavetown I stared at the river for a while a few days ago. I probably should’ve been doing other things; I had a…

by Shorna A. '25
March 6, 2024

Blog / People & Identities

am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

Some days are wonderful. Others are tough. And then… there are those days. the blah The ones that don’t feel quite right, but you can’t put a finger on why. Everything…

by Kanokwan T. '26
March 4, 2024

Blog / Challenges

Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became super sick and ended up…

by Andi Q. '25
March 3, 2024

Blog / Art, Literature, Music

art block among other stuff

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by Anika H. '26
February 28, 2024

Blog / Rural and Small-Town

rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

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Field of Cows! Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It’s a season of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are…

by Nicole Cooper
February 26, 2024

Blog / Challenges

Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and now it’s going up months late” series! Today’s topic: winter break :D On Wednesday, December 20th, I…

by Allison E. '27
February 24, 2024