“Inspiration”- Alexa J.
Warning: cheesiness ahead! Halfway through this chaotic semester filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building,...
View ArticleFinding Inspiration
Warning: cheesiness ahead! Halfway through this chaotic semester filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building,...
View ArticleWish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman
I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just happened? No pset, no exam, no looming deadline. I spent the past 14 hours working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I...
View ArticleFears and Hopes
The world looked very different today. The presidential election is over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many people are shocked, others are glad, others feel hurt,...
View ArticleVirtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts
Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money for lunch and just wait for dinner. -Minutes later- I was walkin' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw...
View ArticleDear High School Senior
Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of freaking out about upcoming...
View Articlemaking dumplings
DOUGH: clean your counter and wash your dishes wash your hands too pour a few cups of flour into big bowl add one cup hot water knead add another cup of hot water knead some more keep kneading (more...
View ArticleBiological Engineering at MIT
MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You will find there are two groups of people. There is group A that despises biology and if it weren’t for 7.01x being a GIR (a...
View ArticleKevin’s Room
You’ve probably heard this a million times in various iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us united by this one weird thing or set of things that keeps us moving...
View ArticleCASE: Identity and Intersectionality
The two thousand sixteenth year anno Domini (or "Common Era" if you're into that) has been rough. If you are not upset, frustrated, or confused about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe...
View ArticleFantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them
Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT...
View ArticleNext House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post)
"Delicious food" "Better than home" "My favorite dorm event" "I was so hungry and then I wasn't hungry after I ate the good food" "Juicy" "Best cooked meat I’ve had all school year." "Amazing...
View ArticleWatch Ceri on SciShow!
Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the blogs around the time the application went up) may recall Ceri, our prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a...
View ArticleThe Trashion Show
Reviews: “Eco-chic.” -a freshman critic from Maseeh “The prizes were awesome, and the designers worked super hard all semester, and the lighting was super cool, and I’m really glad it all came...
View ArticleMIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET
I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check...
View ArticleChecking in with EA Applicants
Hey there, Early Action Applicant, I just saw Chris’ post about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in. If you don’t read past this paragraph, just remember one thing: your...
View ArticleReaffirming our support for undocumented students
As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the United States since the election last month, with many students sharing their hopes and fears regarding the new administration, and many...
View ArticleMIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1!
One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious: it’s in Boston! (well technically Cambridge, but you know, still the “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out...
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