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• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  Yesterday I recorded myself covering Reese Lansangan’s “No Snow”. I first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it’s always been one of my favorite Christmas…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I’ve had to write a lot of papers, and while I’m not the best writer, I’ve found that this formula works really well…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of the ear in…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  this semester was a blast! here are some things that happened :)   weekend trips Maine — for Veteran’s Day weekend, my burton conner floor went to some random town…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post I made. UPDATE: Here’s the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took only…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There’s so much to write about. I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting a 45% on the…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 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 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  You got in…wait…YOU GOT IN!!! You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, later today,⁠13 or now, depending on when you see this you’ll receive an email with details on what’s…

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, our Early Action application pool is very competitive, and unfortunately, we can’t admit everyone. If your decision was deferred, you are one of the applicants who are…

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you…

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting plants. I’m not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former housemate Kevin brought home a…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  dun dun dUNNNN EA decisions are tomorrow :O, as y’all probably know too well. If you get in, here’s a virtual mug of my favorite tea⁠15 I just discovered this…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I’m writing this blog sitting on an Amtrak train speeding from Boston back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for 18.600,⁠22 probability and random variables just…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  This last week has been super, super hectic for me, hence my silence on the blogs. This semester I took 3 HASS⁠32 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences classes this semester:…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella ’25 and Jenny ’25 to help me with this…and…well…here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I’ve brought you both here…

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand, where I held a…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it’s christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just so happens…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  apparently i haven’t made any blog posts about classes yet so here’s one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with final projects this semester. misfortune because…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  Yesterday,⁠43 By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could finish this by midnight, but, alas. It is now 12:53 AM. after turning in my last assignment for the…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021