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Yes, MIT building numbers make sense
I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally going to go out just before CPW, but that got canceled, so…...
View ArticleScreaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009
I. Spent. AT LEAST 15 HOURS ON THIS GODDAMN CODE. Endless stretches spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper...
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Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner
I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline...
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Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program
One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in...
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an anime fan’s dilemma
At long last…the weeb03 anime/manga/general Japanese culture fan representation that the Admissions blogs totally needed… Hi, I’m your resident weeb. I’ve watched some 60+ days04 if you think these...
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THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT
Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while – or just know me in person – might know that I have one true love, and its name is FINAL FANTASY 7. I LOVE this game. It has been my...
View ArticleI’m nervous to meet you
Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of CPW03 Campus Preview Weekend: MIT's admitted students weekend 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to...
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Robo-CJ writes haiku
I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku Poetry Day! It’s not very much of a leap to think that I could...
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Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the...
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CP* restored my faith in the universe
CP*,10 called as such because it's no longer a weekend--it's over multiple weekends the virtual replacement for Campus Preview Weekend, was SO much fun. Sure, there’s no free food involved when...
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You Are Here
It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I sit in my dining room and stare at the problem set on my computer screen, neck craning down. The music in my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to...
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making the most of things
I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of happiness this weekend :) My floor’s annual party, DTYD (Dance ‘Til You Drop), would have been yesterday had the events of the past...
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[Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year
First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting me write this blogpost. I love you and miss you a lot! My name is Mariia03 Yes, my name is spelled with two 'i's because that's how...
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Visual Arts @ MIT part 2
In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that post, we talked extensively about all the visual arts related things we have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite...
View Articlefinding direction
i’m the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not...
View ArticleDear prefrosh,
Over these past couple of weeks, I’ve had the absolute privilege of working closely with MIT Admissions to help organize CP*, MIT’s virtual take on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew that the years I...
View ArticleTo the exclusion of everything else
Here’s a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some...
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four semesters in music and food
Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I...
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a quarantine haiku generator
hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.
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[guest post] hindsight in 2020
Over the years, we have occasionally published posts from students who didn’t get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle...
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