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  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  -person K-12 student programming [annotation note="Previously, through May 15 ... hosting any programming for K-12 students, including admitted students and ... restrictions, we will not be hosting any programming for K-12 students, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

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  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i’d had — i’d even started the lab early…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* One Summer's Day The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I’m back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I’ve been walking around with this weird feeling on the inside. As if goosebumps are embedded deep into my skin. Subconsciously, I’ve been feeling a…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  Warren K. Lewis, a chemical engineer who had been involved with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common path of UROPing on campus…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. ’21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned–you should always have a backup plan. Or improvise. After end of…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born in Seoul. I’ve heard stories from…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston as I can before I guaduate. So far, I have been doing okay but could be doing…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  mein souffle,,, she didn't rise Kimmy K. '19 and Alex M. '21 want you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset. And amidst all…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my friends and ask how they’re…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  tired, mostly there aren’t too many psets there aren’t too many extracurricular committments there aren’t too many midterms there aren’t too many other, miscellaneous things to worry about but combine them…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  four letters H, A, C, and K are time travelers, journeying forward in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  Here is a picture of Allan’s room, snipped from here: He left this morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way imaginable – we have the same…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  received this email from mit administration sometime yesterday: To the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump signed yesterday restricting individuals from seven countries from entering the United States…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017