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• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1 ... ="University of California"]UC[/annotation] application that was due late November

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  note="2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities"](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the rain that sort of derailed our plans. I hadn't been camping since high

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... unpack and set up our beds. We got a tour of the cabin, and then three of ... way, we saw the shell of a blue car, and we chained together clover

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East Coast—of course, as was typical for my academically-serious parents, such ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... 'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL ... the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... titled Tips for Finding a UROP, as well as a series of advice and resources ... Experimental Learning Exchange (ELx) portal has a list of UROPs, MISTI programs

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... aptly titled: The game of rules and living by them. Song: The Name of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth aware of itself. Maybe New York was like that too, full of feelings I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... significant ingestion hazard under anticipated conditions of normal use.” Our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no time has passed. At the same time, all my energy from the beginning of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things you see upon entering our apartment. For those of you who have read my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of ... that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019