Open Thread: Waitlisted
A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the...
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Open Thread: Admitted
YOU GOT IN!!! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.
View ArticleMIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you...
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Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions)
Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute. Since the blogs were mostly focused on decisions, I figured I’d follow up a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on...
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amongst the stars
Over spring break, I crashed at my recently graduated friend’s place in NYC. In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what’s honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail...
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spring break!
The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure-filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn’t give us a...
View Articlein the prospect of leaving
As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to...
View Articletwo years after my book auction
On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a cobblestone placed on this path that we follow—but I...
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glassblowing & me
The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven’t done a lot of glassblowing, it’s played...
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My dorm room’s 24-year history
I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like this: This is an old photo. I once wrote of this room...
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Declared My Major :D
At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime during the spring term of their freshman year. I’m a fairly decisive person when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident...
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21W.762 Poetry Workshop
This semester, I decided to take 21W.762 Poetry Workshop taught by Ed Barrett. I’ve always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid to really just dive into it since it felt cringey or...
View Articleat least it’s not covid
on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep, and i felt awful. my throat was sore, i simultaneously felt hot and cold, and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose....
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Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe’s. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky,...
View Articlezero knowledge
one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research organization. i got involved with 0xparc because it’s actually...
View Articleswatches of MIT
I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and drabs. This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the...
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who started the fire? (not clickbait)
For the last few years, I’ve been living off-campus in a house full of other MIT undergraduate women. We’re part of MIT’s FSILG (Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is...
View Articlerandom thoughts about choices
one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit’s “grind culture” or “questionable mental health”. mit is hard. some people say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie,...
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choosing where to go
On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different decision somewhere in her...
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