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Blog / Announcements
MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...
announce that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released ... moments of joy and curiosity, rather than being consumed by the Waiting of ... passes. I'll see you on the other side of decisions! -
Blog / MIT Life
Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…
"] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... fueled by the adrenaline of venturing off MIT's campus the previous day, I -
Blog / Uncategorized
Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea
meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing I'm thinking about, here are some of the ideas I've jotted -
Blog / MIT Life
my room an evolution
"]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room. Freshman ... character. I got curtains that block as much of the sneaky sunlight, unlike ... semester left, I'm not sure if I want to go through the hassle of getting -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin
glass and never learns his lesson. He eats grapes the size of his head or ... get her but she won't give me the time of day, she is truly our mother ... he wants attention. He loves being the center of attention and will -
Blog / Admissions
Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more
applications, and we won't start admitting anyone until all of the ... Here are some updates from the Admissions Office... Applications ... year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of -
Blog / Hacks
Mario Institute of Technology hack Laura's entry on an awesome hack.
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Blog / Admissions
Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.
and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... date of birth clearly indicated -- and that the letter address the -
Blog / Challenges
Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.
2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream... -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!
obsession with stickers. Sorry the pictures are so blurry! Lighting is difficult. Taking the pages out of their page protectors without hurting ... post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part
close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York City at least once a year (Witness Sam's sleeping-on-the-bus face) We -
Blog / Academics & Research
Techfair technology, stickers and internships
semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online ... ... presence. :) Techfair is one of my highlights of the spring semester and -
Blog / Class Projects
MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?
isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... of the types of things that happen at MIT. There was an incident over ... be scary. The world is full of weird people out there, be careful. So -
Blog / Academics & Research
Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.
install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever -
Blog / Community Projects
Affirmations not unnecessary
, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know -
Blog / CPW
Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!
cross stitching livestream for all of the MIT admits in the class of 2024 and I'm reprising my role this year for the class of 2025, BUT WITH ... 't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it -
Blog / Announcements
Be a Blogger 2025!
a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions that ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards