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  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular class amongst bloggers. 21W.762 was by far the most easygoing class I’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  I’m a group chat kind of person — I really am bad at individual messaging and anything I find vaguely interesting, funny, entertaining, or controversial, I send to my group…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  Song: Dancing in the Moonlight by Olive Klug It’s 9:05 am. The sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those episodes ago in the season…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT technically “does not curve”, ⁠03 but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased happiness when everyone scores poorly…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall! 0 0 asdf Keep going Try again How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  This is my fourth (and last) post like this. See 2019, 2020, 2021. Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I’ve always been someone that has traveled in…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I wrote about four-dimensional worms.  Specifically, the philosophical notion that people exist through time in the same way we do…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early 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
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! CELEBRATE! BE HAPPY!

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• 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 17, 2022
• 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 2027. This is an open forum for you to…

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  wayne: it’s just like walking, you put one foot in front of the other cj: does it wayne: nooo you’re marching, like, go a little forward and let yourself glide…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6.2540) because it was one of…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Look at these pictures I drew in class from my lecture notes this semester

  

  belugas actually don’t have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares i found out that notability has a basketball-themed template evangelion ???????

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is your hardest…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender, relationships, disability, sexuality, etc. written by people with…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even when I’m not…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo and behold — snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to laverde’s⁠24 grocery…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  On November 20th in 26-100⁠25 a lecture hall MIT’s Lecture Screening Committee hosted a special free screening of Black Panther 2. Black Panther 2 had been on LSC’s radar since…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022