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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I’ve been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on December 22…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about firsts. First bike, first time camping, first best friend… and my first year at MIT. I think fondly of…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings that I wrote throughout the semester, typically whenever I missed home. I titled each document “I miss application season,” but…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new class numbering system. It would’ve…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I finished my last final. I’ve never been so relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and comforting that time would not slow…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  Each time you come home, you’re faced with the self you left behind. Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do. There were no…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  I’m gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a sketch. If you…

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone laughed nervously, “woahhh…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class was themed around cats, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the first two), started by Jonathan…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early 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
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! We hope you are happy! Take some time to celebrate with those who are important to you; we’ll have more important, cylindrical information for you soon.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their…

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• 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 2028. This is an open forum for you to…

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old picture. Instead, I found a nearly one year old video that I accidentally recorded when I…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to whether I should pursue a PhD program right after graduation or work in the industry for a…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  I’ve stopped listening to Jenny’s cozy destress vibes playlist while psychoanalyzing the bloggers⁠63 bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in the information and creating new assumptions and…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  IT’S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when I received a January…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023