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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  When my friends asked me what my spring break plans were, I said something along the lines of, “Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)” as if I was…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  Intro [Gosha] It all started with a dormspam.⁠02 dormspam refers to emails sent out to the entire MIT undergrad population, which usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  It has been 13 days since Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour began so in honor of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in alphabetical order…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst feeling…

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT was. Conversations with current students led me to believe that MIT’s hardness ranged from “quite” to “extraordinarily”; some even…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we’ve been doing this for…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and vaguely speaking I’d…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 yo-yos. Mills can cut…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I’m taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to schedule around;…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  It’s my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements. I don’t love my classes, but I’m getting through (y’know, relatively). Sometimes people ask me why I’m doing…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly thorough…

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  in which i document some of my thoughts regarding my job search and how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version of a more comprehensive…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of architecture of MIT’s campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at least a…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 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, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!!!! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, remember to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• 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, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category,…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  We–Jebby, Jenny, Kai, and Isbla–animated this year’s Pi Day video! If you haven’t checked it out yet, lookie here. To achieve this, we ate nothing but ramen noodles and slept…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. ’23. Few things on God’s green earth…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023