Open Thread: Deferred Early
Our applicant pool for Early Action was really competitive, and unfortunately accepting everyone just isn’t an option. If your decision was deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider your...
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Open Thread: Admitted Early
YOU GOT IN! It’s time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, later today,02 or now depending on when you see this you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look out...
View ArticleMIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you...
View Articlehello deferred applicants,
it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it’s been two years,...
View Articleit’s only a matter of time
This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like a rock inside an empty tin can.01 And, now that the semester is over, that tin can truly is empty. For the accepted, I offer my...
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and i am afraid of falling
I’ve been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to square, devouring and moving forward and moving back. I...
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Wandering through the Infinite
At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn’t actually bothered to stop and...
View ArticleThings I enjoyed reading in 2020
I was going to name this post “Things I enjoyed reading this year: the sequel”, as a callback to last year’s post. But then I decided that this wasn’t sustainable, and next year I’d rather not write...
View ArticleDenied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab
It’s never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue...
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things that went well
It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel...
View ArticleAcademic Things I’ve Learned
In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college: not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the...
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where is home?
one Living alone is easy It’s keeping someone that’s impossible in the last month, it simultaneously feels that so much happened, and that nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine...
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highlights of a hellish semester
okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i’m still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten...
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Fixing a trapeze!
One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general...
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MIT Talent Show
In mid-November, a UA Innovation11 undergraduate committee planned, organized, and hosted an MIT-wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the community together...
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home is where the whiteboard is
My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people within it. Each floor’s walls are covered with murals painted by residents — and where there aren’t murals, there are blackboards and...
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Thoughts for the New Year, part 4
In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very serious, but I considered them all quests that I was determined...
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20 Things I Learned In 2020
*full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might not feel like it all the time, but we are resistant beings my...
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The Iron Mask
I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of...
View Articletrying to trim the tree of possible paths
Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I’ve left my copy of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics back in Cambridge,01 this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from...
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