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if rupi kaur went to mit
hi there it’s rona w. ‘21 your newest admissions blogger and sometimes i write bad instagram poetry enjoy —an intro post, kinda heart racing hands quivering cheeks flushing these late nights always...
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Doing well???
In my last post (which was way too long ago ), but I guess I should update y’all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the question is: Ok, I guess… As a quick reminder my current...
View ArticleIn Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment
My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus has been closed down. Yes, that’s right: the Subway in...
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the joys and frustrations of 6.009
I texted my friend, “I feel like my frustration with 6.009 over the course of each week would make an amazing sinusoidal graph.” She said, “You should make that a blog post!” So here it is, a lil post...
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Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing
It’s interesting that I’ve never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at...
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Holding pattern
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m kind of bored. A combination of not being an athlete + a lighter class schedule + spring break + being a senior = I just want to graduate already. Let’s break that...
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a week in europe
on friday, loud, incessant bangs and whirrs of the never-ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6.033 report seem comprehensible. i look outside and see the same...
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CPW Advice 2k19
It’s CPW week!!!!!!!!! (What is CPW? It’s Campus Preview Weekend, or as I tell all my friends back home who don’t know MIT lingo, Admitted Students’ Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for...
View Articlethings work out
This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and Engineering which allows us to combine CMS with Course 6, or to...
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Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019
CPW 2019 is happening this week, starting on Thursday! There are hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure out if MIT is the right place for them. This amazing...
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Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?”
In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but...
View ArticleYou only got in because you’re a…
This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It’s such good news, you should be elated — but it’s also complicated, and really...
View Article21
A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you can now drink that special fermented beverage that has basically been available to everyone in most other countries since they were...
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how to grow a vibrant kresge
Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to...
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7 Rings
You guessed it, I’m finally: And because there are literally so many, so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I’m...
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the two sides of CPW
It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of 2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences – hers as...
View Articlefall ’19 catalog is out!
the fall 2019 catalog was released recently, perhaps yesterday, and already i’ve seen my friends planning out their fall semesters on firehose for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part...
View Articlean unnecessarily detailed normal friday
my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough seconds to annoy caleb01 my roommate as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it’s 9:30 and i should really get...
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Hesitations about Choosing MIT
A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a prospective 2023’s message expressing hesitation about choosing MIT. I think a lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it...
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10 / Field trip
To set the mood: Feeling Blue “When I’m in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I’m in Palestine, I listen to the blues.” — Nida Sinnokrot, Palestine Blues Spring break, I embarked on...
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