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• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  one Living alone is easy It’s keeping someone that’s impossible in the last month, it simultaneously feels that so much happened, and that nothing at all happened, as it has…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college: not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can survive on ramen and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It’s never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  I was going to name this post “Things I enjoyed reading this year: the sequel”, as a callback to last year’s post.⁠07 At the time of writing it was named…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official transcript. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If…
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another school representative to be considered official. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your school does not…
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I’ve been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to square, devouring and…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like a rock inside an empty tin can.⁠11 And, now that the semester is over, that tin…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the nature of writing in…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 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 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It’s time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, later today,⁠15 or now depending on when you see this you’ll receive an email with details on…

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  Our applicant pool for Early Action was really competitive, and unfortunately accepting everyone just isn’t an option. If your decision was deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider…

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  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
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now — perhaps most prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out tomorrow/Saturday at…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti. He’s nervous about opening the MIT decisions portal already.”  Eminem About 2 separate…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  One of my most favorite classes I’ve ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Note: So, you may or may not have noticed that my name is ~different~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still Caroline P.,…

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two and a half classes that fell under MIT’s broad category of HASS-A, or arts classes.⁠21 MIT students…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020