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• Blog / MIT Life

  post-blizzard pics except idk how to use photoshop

  

  In California, I never got to experience having a "snow day" (we did ... strolled around to take some photos of the snow while it was still fresh. I ... to go from bristling pain to losing sensation because I forgot my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use ... makes sense, and the tutorial was easy to follow. My drill involved ... every MIT sporting event. To anyone in MIT's music department: If you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may have some questions, so we’ve assembled some answers to FAQs. Many ... you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  a funny little thing. As the days go on, it becomes harder to return. Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... thought it best to process those in private, in the pages of my paper

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using ... with this picture that he made to teach about  goer five using only these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i wake up and i'm already tired. i no longer know if i want to go to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  the same roof Secrets were whispered Whatever happens to us Wherever you ... contingent of roughly twenty or so people to PUMAC every year as volunteers, which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  months furiously writing and rewriting their personal essays to [annotation ... those personal essays. I recall really having to dig down deep into what ... continue to learn more as you finish up your application process! To help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... applied to transfer, and we have admitted 20. And as usual, we are very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... winter sun (California) I was stuck inside, held hostage to what Google

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes ... himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... , including undocumented students) could not apply to MIT during the Early Action (EA) admissions round. We are pleased to announce that, beginning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... to see this year's full event listing. I only had two final exams this ... the Arts Scholars to see The Tempest at the American Repertory Theater

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014