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FAQ / Afford
What is need-blind admissions?
MIT's need-blind admissions process ensures that you will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process because of your financial need. Our admissions process is need-blind for all students, foreign and domestic. -
Blog / Challenges
Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit
trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone -
Blog / Personal Projects
[Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards
more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends ... surprise him out of nowhere with his newly found skills. This has been a ... evolved into a larger research expedition of creating a chess engine and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts
By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.
First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the seven daughters (the constellation is also called "The Seven Sisters") of -
Blog / Uncategorized
our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman
puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to ... worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of the weather wizard lies. He, the arch-nemesis of our fire dragons, is -
Blog / Prepare for MIT
My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago
to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want ... much time in [annotation note="Fifth floor of the Stratton Student Center ... here. Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve found myself doing all of these - but -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎
those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id ... out and start selling glass ponies in the streets of Venice. [image ... of Monster with Reese's Puffs every morning for breakfast (can and all -
Blog / MIT Life
sticker stories adorned on my water bottles
slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the -
Blog / MIT Life
(Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…
flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very -
FAQ / First-year application
What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?
We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand ... of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you -
Blog / Advice
greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college
As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own -
Blog / Miscellaneous
dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination
vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own -
Blog / Residential Life
four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales
to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers
="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by -
Blog / Advice
Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant
makes sense, given my role. Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process. While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.
of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry -
Blog / Challenges
you can care about things revisiting stoicism
both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional -
Blog / About Decisions
All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait
letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected ... . It's impossible to tell, from the outside, which of these factors