MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you...
View ArticleST PATRICKS DAY
HEAR YE HEAR YE ALL LADS, GINGERS, AND HONORARY BOSTONIANS, LORD HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK: It can’t be said I’m an early birdIt’s ten o’clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never...
View Articlespeaker talks and gallery shows
This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT’s deep well of events: book talks, participatory activities, gallery openings, film screenings… the list goes on! SHASS01 MIT School of...
View ArticleMIT Dining Halls
One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that people will always want to apply/commit, there isn’t as much of a need to wow students as there is with a state school or a small...
View Article[Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston
Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly-In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly-In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible...
View Articleconcord market is finally here!!!!!
The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years, the Student Center housed an MIT treasure: LaVerde’s, our beloved on-campus grocery store. 12 The earliest mention of LaVerde's I...
View Articlereporting from… Philadelphia! 🔔
Day 1 – 10/12 My plane ride to Philadelphia was about an hour long—I booked a flight with a budget airline that charged for every add on and cracked down on oversized luggage. My backpack, which served...
View Article“we have the winter olympics at home”
When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I’m on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time...
View Articleone weekend in March
I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond-brainstem activity, so instead, enjoy my weekend foray into lifestyle blogging. Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine...
View ArticleBLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!!
Just over two weeks ago, we dropped our Pi Day announcement with Jebby’s Blood Moon Fest blog post. That night, my roommate Anoushka read the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real....
View ArticleEbony Affair as a Pre-Frosh
As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to the opportunities, resources, and culture on campus. In...
View ArticleHonse.
I’m taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. The master at work. For those of you who don’t know, this is what a...
View Articleemails to self
what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of...
View ArticleThoughts from Science Bowl 🥣
“Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more...
View Articlein a funk
tw: mental health, trauma 1 I’ve been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months. feels like it snuck up on me like — ha! — got you distinct from an acute negative...
View Articleseven scenes from Paris
(ONE: Seeing my friend again after two months, the unexpected warmth, all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best pastries I’d ever had: croissants, a baguette, a squishy...
View Article[Guest Post] A day in my life!
Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11:20 — My second alarm. I ignore this one too. 11:25 — I roll...
View Articlemit x caltech rivals to lovers
i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome
View ArticleLittle Pieces of Living
In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare innovation internship at the Boston Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center through one of the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public...
View Articleclasses im taking this semester!
Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly spent last semester knocking some GIRs01 GIR = general...
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