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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one might expect,…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large group of people—especially…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities,…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of beauty,  it is as though with this overwhelming pain and love and beauty, i have never felt…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  i spent spring break writing. writing blog posts, writing things for our informatics olympiad, writing emails for the puzzle club. the time i didn’t spend writing i spent eating dinner…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in – other people doing well on…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you’re writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how hard it…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers’ old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a worse job? Wouldn’t…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  [joint post] part 1: a jaunt across Europe see Kano's post :)

  

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1)

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here’s a table of contents: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven One It doesn’t seem to make sense Everything…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• 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.⁠07 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