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  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn’t accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• 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, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  It’s okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can, please breathe, relax, and ground yourself. If the emotions become too much to handle, there’s no shame…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

   Let’s get right to it. What went into making this year’s Pi Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back in October, I was…

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven’t been in the writing mood as of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be something I looked…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  I am, by nature, a fairly disorganized person. This sometimes surprises the people I meet, because I am constantly busy, and people expect there to be a method to the…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew’s room and it was the halfway point of the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online Sunday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place…

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  content warning: this post is about covid-19, and the stress and uncertainty that i felt while leaving campus last spring. it’s about painful memories and the sense of loss that…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I’ve been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I’ve been dancing…unofficially…for much longer. as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, a significant portion of…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is my preferred method of decoration. I’ve covered pretty much every wall of my room at home, to the…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I’ve been doing during…

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn’t started yet, that blog wasn’t being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that the spring semester has begun, I…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute see alan's post :)

  

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  Shuli: MLK weekend 2021⁠73 OK, it’s been a while. Life be like that sometimes ok 74 Alan: oops. was the 41st annual MIT Mystery Hunt and my third time participating.…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it’s about depression. ac newman’s lyrics hit deep, with lines like “so you crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024’s second round of orientation⁠110 because this is our first time actually being on campus was to write a letter to our…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

    Classes 7.014 – Introductory Biology; Yet another GIR I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to fulfill all my Science GIR…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  It’s my birthday⁠134 yes, this is inspired by Amber’s lovely post a few weeks ago today, and one of my resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021