2017–2021
1,466 posts
2021 297
December 2021
- it is okay to not know
- lifting heavy objects
- processing
- romanticize a quiet life
- to the skeletons in my closet
- excerpts
- things that are golden
- insanity
- No Snow, and on singing badly
- Words of Advice for the Incoming Class
- How I Write Academic Papers
- mask on, mask off
- snippets from a semester
- Things I enjoyed reading in 2021
- I Could Never Do it Alone
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- field notes on all the fruit
- Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor
- people keep leaving their things in my room
- A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall
- Flying Close to the Sun
- MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET
- ew taxes
- a season of secondhand joy
- school projects
- friday afternoon in the town of beans
- suggestions for MIT merch
- blogger wrapped 2021
- old east campus
- Most of You Will Be Deferred
November 2021
- fall semester
- everything is actually going okay
- %e9%95%bf%e5%a4%a7
- love people. cook them. tasty food.
- [ hard mode ]
- majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions
- the perfect choice doesn’t exist
- the senior mindset
- [Guest Post] art and things
- The Stories That Made Me
- how to put together an ohms concert
- dancing at MIT (and beyond)
- lord, it is time for a blog post
- MIT is hard
- Bring your stuffed toys to class
- when the world gets too heavy
- [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance
- the things i hate
- Working With WashLava
- mmmm wikipedia <3
- how to adult
- me, existing
- [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke
October 2021
- Spoofy Spooky Stories
- confronting the self
- I’m not an imposter…
- sometimes when it rains
- i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston
- social groups
- Making Connections
- Ask me anything about portfolios
- There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut
- updating my blogger bio
- we do some memeing around these parts
- Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003?
- forbidden gatorade
- 6.0001 is Done
- making things
- a small moment in time
- A Fangirl Moment
- Ring Delivery 2021
- gone was any trace of you
- my summer!
- a salmonella saga
- from me to you
- in wonderland
- walking mechanics
- joshua angrist shares the nobel prize!
- Crocheting With the Firehose
- Applying Sideways (in Chinese)
- Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA
- Navigating the PM Interview
- this is the real life
- head above the water
- you can’t be everything to everyone
- On Genshin Impact
- Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic)
- born again freshman
- [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT”
- [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT”
- Froshmore
September 2021
- regrets
- Things I Know to Be True
- Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center
- It’s cool to care
- Dear My Old Friend,
- Meet the baby bloggers!
- Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table
- The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo
- A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall
- perception
- on mit’s mailing list culture
- breaching discomfort
- culture within culture
- this summer
- [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt
- the last twenty days
- Tenets
- [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt
- A Place
- day one
- residential exploration, but without a residence
- and i’ve come to terms
- today is my birthday
- ungestalt
August 2021
- The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live
- dating while asian
- Leavetaking
- what I did this summer
- Rain by any other name
- conversations with friends
- What do you want?
- back in east campus, the sequel
- homecoming
- ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything!
- a week of summer
- I (don’t) want the summer to end
- summer 2021
- Alive and Kicking
- tiny living
- butterfly season
July 2021
- Accepting criticism
- Infinite Magazine
- Campus and Memories
- how can i keep from singing?
- i’ve joined a sorority
- i ran out of social energy
- experiences, or the lack thereof
- eternal dissatisfaction
- living away from home
- AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay
- what i’m up to this summer
- UROPing
- goal setting and organization
- .nano pixels
- Be a Blogger 2021!
June 2021
- All the 2021 i3 videos megapost
- Demons
- I’m a physics major (for now)
- [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se
- Choosing a Major
- rice cooker cooking
- all the classes I took freshman year
- How To Make Mediocre Furniture
- Tech is Hell
- what the f*** am i doing this summer
- well, well
- You should get this bundle right now
- MIT gave my pod free art supplies!!
- up, down, and out
- making space in my schedule to go to the maker space
- Landing
- Dissecting emotion
- remember me
May 2021
- I’m Still Standing
- trying to figure it out
- Listing It All Out
- how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.]
- what i learned from classes
- I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt
- Senior Week On The Blogs!!!
- 9.00 with no context
- Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim
- secondhand stories
- A Very Important Announcement
- how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style
- scootin’ and zoomin’
- CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture
- this is fine
- Homecoming
- Four Years Through A Laptop Case
- 549,033 words
- nothing really matters or does everything?
- Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis
- The rise and fall of CPW
April 2021
- a brief walk to Caffè Nero
- walking the marathon…
- …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend
- girls just wanna have fun
- on body image
- applying sideways, beyond admissions
- head down, marching on
- leaning in
- VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April)
- Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World
- Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL
- all time ever does is pass
- Take Care of Us
- busy, busy, busy
- nice moments on campus
- I Miss You, Random Hall
- Hindi sapat ang sampung libong kilometro
- We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well
- Who’s psyched? I’m psyched!
- a state of moving
- Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic
- where is south dakota again?
- reject modern web design
March 2021
- just vibing
- reflecting on 2020 goals
- how do i button up this coat?
- play dough
- on the atlanta shootings
- tidbits
- pathways
- Advisor vs. Advisee
- How to decide which classes to take
- a tour of New Vassar
- wrestling with my ego
- like a freight train
- bday burnout
- continuing
- And tomorrow brings a new day
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours
- Making the Pi Day Video
- regression and imposter syndrome
- busy semesters and how to manage them
- list of things that refill my will to live
- a pi day (decision) story
- coronavirus, one year later
- Figuring out what I want to do with my life
- self-taught dancing: a how-to
- what’s on my wall
February 2021
- things i’ve made and/or consumed
- creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall
- [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute
- [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute
- whiteout conditions
- dear past me
- A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring
- Senior Spring
- another year around the sun
- Slay the Spire as metaphor
- in honor of tau
- goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester
- The River Freezes Over
- Musings of My High School Senior Self
- IAP thoughts
- back in east campus
- The Blog Graveyard
- fictional coping mechanisms
- some thoughts
- Vicennial
- Life on Campus?
- hope springs eternal
- i’m studying abroad this semester
- Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later
- one with nothing
- four weeks in the life
- 2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions
- highlights: high points of a virtual fall
- [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions
January 2021
- walking, walking, walking
- Adventures at Trader Joe’s
- The Quest Continues
- What Did I Learn at MIT?
- MIT Memory Quilt
- A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus
- Out of Context Quoteboard
- Rewriting my Blogger Bio
- Tier Listing My Classes
- 318 memorial drive
- A salty IAP post
- As the City Slumbers
- how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style
- 150 years of MIT course catalogs
- MIT Mystery Hunt is happening!
- Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups
- Mine hands are broken
- Blogger Pets
- lessons on burnout
- [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team
- what i’m doing this iap 2021
- iap: this year vs. last
- New Things I’ve Tried
- My Favorite (Kitchen) Things
- fun facts about random stuff
- trying to trim the tree of possible paths
- The Iron Mask
- 20 Things I Learned In 2020
2020 391
December 2020
- Thoughts for the New Year, part 4
- home is where the whiteboard is
- MIT Talent Show
- Fixing a trapeze!
- highlights of a hellish semester
- where is home?
- Academic Things I’ve Learned
- things that went well
- Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab
- Things I enjoyed reading in 2020
- Wandering through the Infinite
- and i am afraid of falling
- it’s only a matter of time
- hello deferred applicants,
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- some small distractions
- Deferring Thoughts
- 8.021 and my favorite moments
- When I used to run
- a compilation of creative projects
- on success, meaning, and time
- MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET
- Celeste
- Blogger Wrapped 2020
- taylor swift songs as applicants
- On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint
- Avatar and Desserts
- We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021
- Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations
- quarantine throwback
- finding good
- Thanksgiving a different way
November 2020
- [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA
- [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA
- Targets
- I’ve been reading applications
- it’s thanksgiving or something
- “I’m vegetarian now!”
- MIT CodeIt
- socializing over zoom
- A Fall Semester Recap
- a major road to trouble
- and i try to find my place
- The Last Times
- Books I did read this semester
- Unwinding
- books I’ve read this year
- Packing
- sunset/sunrise
- Rate My Setup
- science bowl
- My First Academic Conference
- halfway there
- Twenty thousand paper cuts
- In the Realm of Giants
- how to become a morning person
- Things in My MIT Household
- who cares about poetry?
- rethinking perfectionism
- fake it ’til you make it
- Global Languages Freshman Learning Community
- incremental game support group
- kitchen nightmares
- The Marks of a Student
- On election day
- hazy mid-semester days
- self care
- first snow
- finding meaning at the end of the world
October 2020
- snowfall
- [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program!
- if only I cad more time…
- i am overwhelmed.
- Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less
- 17,707 words
- One Art
- Days in lives that aren’t mine
- A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT
- preserving student community
- A Running Journey
- Digging through old bookmarks
- sundays in the parks with friends
- socializing safely
- What a Robotics Career Looks Like
- There is still no magic formula
- the classes among us
- My Rejection Resume
- oh, the places you’ll go (reprise)
- Ridiculous things I’ve been up to
- being present
- Hell
- oh, the places you’ll go
- Favorite Classes at MIT!
- Rekindling
- dormspam-the-game (Part 3)
- MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO]
- setting up a house
- Exhaustion
- My Gap Year
- Virtual Fall, Real Performances
- You construct intricate rituals
- a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed
- a walk down memory lane
September 2020
- SOFT HOUSE
- Eating Too Much Cake
- halfway across the world
- Designing dead ends
- Taking a Step Back
- in an effort to be whole again
- present tense
- Staying sane and strong during a pandemic
- an outlook on emails
- in search of a reset day
- the art of trying new things
- how to get to Boston
- nREXt and other bad acronyms
- i [don’t] have covid??
- 1.1 miles as the crow flies
- Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown
- MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations
- thing that have changed
- Last Lap
- everything is cool
- PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history
- All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked
- decisions, decisions
- Engineering Digital Communities
- in remembrance of the body
- transferring student culture online
- hot chocolate as a panacea
- it’s not the same, but it’s still home
- meet the baby bloggers!
- A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall
- Goal Setting
- a novel excerpt
- what i’m doing this fall
- To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most
August 2020
- PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall
- Gap Year, Week 1
- Starting Over
- a peek in a week of my summer
- Exploring Classes
- How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs
- My Major, Course 6-9
- Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying
- [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association
- Classes, by the Group Chats
- Deciding to Live on Campus
- you can run
- so i guess fall is happening
- My History of Task-Management
- Parks and Relocation
- Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call
- My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston
- things i have been consuming this summer
- “But I’m not cool…”
- Meet My True Love: Notion
- What getting an education from MIT is like
- Piercings!
- a love letter to rice cookers
- dormspam-the-game (Part 2)
- Lyrics to my MIT experience
- seven questions with youtubers
- The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
- dormspam-the-game (Part 1)
- on anger
- Navigating Offcampus Housing 101
- Filling an Empty Nest
- All the 2020 i3 videos megapost
- Oh, the things I can nerd on about
- Dive: a cultural app
- food diaries pt. 3
- The View is Worth It
- A Year at MIT, by the Numbers
- A Late Recap of IAP 2020
- a spectacle-r weekend
- 5 Historical MIT Videos
- 10 Things I Miss About MIT
- Regrade Request Analysis
- Cognitive Processes
- how i got my book deal
- The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed
July 2020
- 22 Tales from tEp
- We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020
- Anxiety Level: High
- Harvard Friends, Part 2
- Nisha’s Video Game Review
- Harvard Friends, Part 1
- Warmth
- Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis
- Quarantine and Social Life
- Non-Stop
- From the other side of grad school
- Blogger’s Block
- Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself
- Exodus from Cambridge
- my freshman year in laptop stickers
- Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition
- cruel summer
- Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom
- food diaries pt. 2
- A Major Crisis: A Follow Up
- My Blogger App, five years later
- summer in boston
- We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle
- context, obstacles, and critical periods
- Cooking with Cami
- MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students
- non-stop / walang hinto
- The Experiment…
- Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga
- Seattle
- [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months
- Be a Blogger 2020!
June 2020
- On keeping on keeping on
- There is no solving for x
- sophomore spring in hindsight
- In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic
- [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT
- There is no such thing as a typical day
- i visit Cape Cod
- Diving In
- The Crab Cave
- sourdough start & restart & starter
- another day of summer
- Interning Remotely
- senior appreciation post
- at least i’m not as sad as i used to be
- How to Write an Original Song
- Apply to WISE!
- on happiness and well-being
- short term / long term
- Makibaka! Huwag matakot!
- An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives
- food diaries pt. 1
- Final Project Demo Roll
- OUTRAGED.
May 2020
- on being seen
- Media That Makes Me Feel Okay
- Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was
- A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis
- [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion
- Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks
- Sounds like home
- GET A BIKE
- To our prospective students and their families
- Beyond the Stop Light
- I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!!
- Wonder
- Signs of Life
- Sentimental Objects (part four)
- semester 4, take 2
- I Finally Finished Intro Programming
- 6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems
- i’m catching up
- vibe check
- Our Independent Studies
- uncertainly
- Visual Arts @ MIT part 3
- My Freshman Journey with Internships
- end of semester reflections
- WMBR: College Radio at MIT
- Questions & Answers
- Ice Bear
- Parting Remarks
- staying in touch
- Hope
- deep talks
- my year in music, volume 3
- then and now
- Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live
- Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity
- next to normal
- blogger tag yourself: quarantine edition
April 2020
- Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School
- [guest post] hindsight in 2020
- a quarantine haiku generator
- four semesters in music and food
- To the exclusion of everything else
- Dear prefrosh,
- finding direction
- Visual Arts @ MIT part 2
- [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year
- making the most of things
- You Are Here
- CP* restored my faith in the universe
- Tunnel66
- Robo-CJ writes haiku
- I’m nervous to meet you
- THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT
- an anime fan’s dilemma
- Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program
- Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner
- Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009
- How to find your way around MIT
- MINECRAFT MIT!!!
- the one where i talk to ameer
- mit bingo!
- on regression
- MIT launches AI Education website
- keeping interest
- since i’ve been home
- What is a zonotope?
March 2020
- Distraction News
- Cooking in Quarantine
- I moved to Maine
- What I’m Up To
- 101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT
- For the Love of Darties and ChemE
- Murals of Burton-Conner
- Procrastination in the Time of Corona
- i walk through campus and say stuff
- relearning what i know now
- my freshman year playlist
- Your first last day
- A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests
- Surviving Self-Quarantine 101
- A Last Minute Rehearsal
- One Day at a Time
- 24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half
- when apocalypse strikes…
- Love In the Time of Corona
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- hello applicants,
- what’s happening on campus
- This is the way…to check your decisions
- A blast from the past
- yet i maintain composure
- MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions
- New York Trips
- Springing into Junior Year
- 2022 Ring Premiere!
- spring! semester!
- quick thoughts
- Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February
- Random’s 13th
February 2020
- Remembering Gisel
- Back to back to back
- Critter
- soulsearching / naubos na
- Yes, This Actually Happened
- sibling dynamics at MIT
- Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts
- a perfect long weekend
- How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study
- Coming Into My Own
- We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else
- Fun
- on realizations and learning
- A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You
- *Independent* Activities Period Part 2
- screaming
- Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later
- Junior Spring
- nothing & everything
- What’s happening to your apps right now?
- Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good
January 2020
- We made a website
- Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19]
- An Origin Story
- Doing research 277 feet off the ground
- danceAP
- many thoughts
- Regular-ing
- Senior Fall Classes
- batteries recharging
- the view from my window
- updates
- THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS
- incoming how i’ve been spending my iap
- What I’m doing this IAP
- breathing
- what we’ve been up to recently
- Your college application motivational soundtrack for January
- 71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate
- [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1
- Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations
- Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick)
- Alone
- A Decade in Online Posting
- 2020 vision
- New Decade, New Me?
- 2020 Resolutions
- One Last Look Back
2019 289
December 2019
- blogs that are marinating
- Thoughts for the New Year, part 3
- Things I enjoyed reading in 2019
- My winter break so far
- Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT
- Three things I didn’t learn from class
- leaving home, coming home
- Onto the next world!
- How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days
- last minute application panic
- 🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶
- farewell, first semester
- A lively Dead Week
- My First Semester at MIT
- had i known how to save a life
- Into the Unknown
- fragments
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions
- places around and at mit
- How does one write a first post?
- Countdown to Burnout
- oversharing first base
- Bloggers Wrapped 2019
- After Graduating
- Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!
- [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps
- [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night?
- wait for it
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET
- the person you are now
- symptoms of nostalgia
- FIRST SNOW!!!
- Living in Random Hall
- sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?)
November 2019
- on friends / minsan
- November was …
- Be Social
- comic: submitting assignments
- Tetazoo is not a Hivemind
- My MIT Essay Revisions
- Places I Became Human
- MIT-ish
- what’s on my desk: messy person edition
- A week told through food
- A Movie A Day…
- Middle School
- socially aware hacking, part 2
- Little things
- one hour
- Getting Stronger
- Waiting
- On a week of ups and downs
- An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions
- [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform
- Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs
- APPLE BAKE
- what’s the word for
- How to be Tim The Beaver
- I Get To Blog Today!
- to do lists and have done lists
- You Can Save the World
- On Friendship
- Your college application motivation soundtrack for November
- The Waiting Game
- diversions
October 2019
- Don’t Change
- Parametric Cooking
- For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions
- Robo-CJ writes a college app
- my application essays
- A Fashion Free For All
- On identity
- Where I Call Home
- quiz: what halloween candy are you?
- A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh
- A half semester told through paper
- “Take care of yourself.”
- i dropped os 🎉
- a most beautiful camping trip
- bursting the MIT Bubble
- I Picked My First Apple
- How to Survive a Tough Semester
- Remembering Woodie Flowers
- A Major Crisis
- [Guest Post] One Year Later
- Is it a video?
- a semester’s shenanigans
- Yes, we care about your stories
- Flu shots
- Choosing Your Own Adventure
- i rode a train across america
- We can do this!
- MacG 50ish years ago
- Let me introduce myself.
- Your college application motivation soundtrack for October
- [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female
September 2019
- Poetry from 5 AM This Morning
- a gcal september
- loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo
- Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun
- Downtown
- “futility island”
- The Art of Juggling
- No one:
- freshman blogger, sophomore student
- Boston’s Climate Strike
- There is a bench
- FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing
- Rise and Grind and Build
- Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT
- Surprisingly enjoyable experiences
- how to change majors
- my semester in a word: oof
- When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide?
- summer side projects
- first week class reflections
- Notes on Cancer
- happy palindrome week!
- 21e
- i love this f*cking place
- seattle ➞ mit
- mit: it’s complicated
- Colorful
- The Art of Scheduling
- Rexit
- New year, new bloggers!
- visual depictions of my summer
- Your college application motivation soundtrack for September
August 2019
- PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society
- career fair haikus
- What’s Happening at McCormick?
- water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events
- jack of all trades
- Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023
- tyrannosaurus REX
- the sun sets on another summer
- Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In
- Ten years at MIT for me 🎂
- tuesday
- who else is watching infinity train?!?!
- Chasing Success
- How to Perform an Organ Transplant
- lessons learned this summer
July 2019
- Dear July
- All the 2019 i3 videos megapost
- I’m a food blogger now
- A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019)
- Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take
- Applying While Transgender
- 12 / Let’s try law school
- Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions
- The Summer Before College
- trips and transit
- the summer before senior year
- summer tidbits
- summer lovin’ 🎶
- Be a Blogger 2019!
- Battle in The Bay
June 2019
- Food We Made!
- misti musings
- Burnout (and what to do about it)
- Off
- Summers
- sellout’s conundrum
- work // life
- e3 2k19
- Spirited Away
- routine.py
- Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives
- The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT
- The Adventures of Flat Tim
- but her emails
- hello seattle
- “How was your day?”
May 2019
- first impressions of LA
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges
- I Moved Out!
- Sentimental Objects (part three)
- my year in music, volume 2
- 18.600 poetry
- some things my eyes saw recently
- 11 / senior spring
- I Met John Waters
- Finals Week, Minus Finals
- Teaching at MIT
- just another manic wednesday
- a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters
- Somewhere in between
- yeeting classes
- Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released
- A hack, for cap 🇺🇸
- Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter
- unquantifiable growth
- Centimeters to Inches
- Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live
- Leadership @ MIT
- Jojopost
- I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT]
April 2019
- 10 / Field trip
- Hesitations about Choosing MIT
- an unnecessarily detailed normal friday
- fall ’19 catalog is out!
- the two sides of CPW
- 7 Rings
- how to grow a vibrant kresge
- Entry
- You only got in because you’re a…
- Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?”
- Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019
- things work out
- CPW Advice 2k19
- a week in europe
- Holding pattern
- Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing
- the joys and frustrations of 6.009
- In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment
- Doing well???
- if rupi kaur went to mit
- Finding my place at MIT
- What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors
- 9 / Headache
March 2019
- look who i found in vienna
- i ran into someone in vienna today…
- Why
- [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes
- Thank You
- The World Has Many Trees
- Feeling Many Feelings
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- Anticipation
- The Art of Waiting
- here comes a thought
- Pixar Pi
- A recipe for disaster
- Here’s a Plan
- [Guest Post] Down the River
- A recipe for releasing decisions
- Kekka dake da!
- Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP
- A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus
- 8 / Fresh start
- Laptop Stickers of MIT
- First Midterm of The Semester
- cooling off
February 2019
- Evaluate your MIT Student Experience
- The coolest spring break ever?
- The Year of the HASS
- In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle
- living the dream: UROP edition!
- road trip
- Life Changing Classes at MIT
- Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator
- *Independent* Activities Period
- A Tribute
- Ramen
- 7 / Pressure is a privilege
- FourFiveUnits
- Freshman Summer
- Up, Up, and Away
- Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience
- first week madness memes
- a semester i’m excited for
- registration day!
- A Year away from home
- a super timely post about spotify wrapped
- Bad Ideas Weekend 2019
January 2019
- Green Building Challenge
- So we’re actually *identical* twins
- I’m Awesome (at) Parkour!
- On UROPs
- tidbits
- soul searching at CES 2019
- Adventures of a Morning Person
- On Reconnecting
- 6 / New Year, New Me
- The Room(s) Where It Happens
- 0 125
- Subtle Black MIT Traits
- Thoughts for the New Year, part 2
- 5 / The final countdown
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December 2018
- 2 009
- On IAP
- I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it
- The Fringe that Stole Christmas
- An Astrological Guide to the College App Process
- Paths
- How to Finals™
- HERE LIES P/NR
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted Early
- some warmth on a cold decisiony day
- An Art UROP and an Animation Job
- To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before
- Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!
- Hello Blogosphere!
- A Complicated Synthesis Question
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET
- Seven Early Evenings
- 4 / Just *breathe*
- How did MIT’s GIRs come to be?
November 2018
- 3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time
- d-d-d-d-drop date
- Confusion, by the Numbers
- Decision fatigue
- Poemtober!
- musings on duty and purpose
- A Monday in the Life
- 3 / A team effort
- media we’ve been into recently
- Integration
- Making friends by learning languages
- extraordinary and everyday beauty
- [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory
- Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT!
- The Story of Tonight
- The November Rule
October 2018
- ITS SPOOKY SEASON (complete)
- 2 / Keep Calm and Carry On
- Quizbowl adventuring
- chaos and an exam that I technically failed
- Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1
- November 1st is coming up!
- Hey International Kids!
- For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters)
- 251 talks – avery
- Hint of fall
- comic: forecast
- Designing MIT for democracy
- assassins – a liveblog
- MIT announces new College of Computing
- Library War
- Calculus in Context
- 36 Units of Class
- talk to people!
- I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer
- The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class
- Classes, by the Calories
- comic: you were so young
- Splash 2018
September 2018
- 1 / How to MIT again?!
- Two Years
- Balancing Act…
- One Month of Baby Steps
- Today Was A Long Day
- Big Dreams, Small Mind
- A man’s reach should exceed his grasp
- Seattle was gorgeous
- comic: métro
- An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago
- Another FAPtatsic Start
- Fortin’ with Mimi
- 500 Days of Summer
- New Beginnings
- I’m going to be a blogger!
- East Campus Hall Rush: 1E
- Welcome Back!
- Open Thread: The Final Countdown
- 8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap!
- Enjoy Life
- The 9-to-5 grind
- Labor Day, literally
August 2018
- Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung
- 8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…?
- Applying to Grad School
- East Campus REX Events!
- Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites
- H I C C U P S
- All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog
- We Saw a Sea Turtle
- 8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious
- The Making of Embrace
- an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify
- 8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar?
- College Admissions and the Public Interest
July 2018
- 8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa
- Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions
- an essay writing journey
- PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!
- 8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words
- Summer Reading
- In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care
- 8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me)
- Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich
- a shoebox pc
- Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech
- 8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really
- What We Did In High School
- Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs
- 8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan
- 8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc
- Be A Blogger (2018)!
June 2018
- on wryping styles
- 8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship
- 6 3
- Murals of East Campus
- SUMMER ROSES
- Axes of Confusion
- How to Meet More People
- Learning to Spend Better
- Doors of East Campus
- 7 Reasons MIT Is Special
- Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm
- MIT Is My Home
- start of summer tidbits
- past, present, future
- My Experience with Real Analysis
- The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT
- My Mountain Climbing Team
- Semester Reflections
- [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey
- 61 Photos from my Time at MIT
- Hello Summer!
May 2018
- Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta
- Fig. 4: Study with me!
- 51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s
- Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi!
- Why the title of this post is really important
- I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River}
- Sentimental Objects (part two)
- Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic
- a shocking look inside a macgregor single
- 50 Reflections on 50 Things
- Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville
- MIT Moms
- Little Rectangles
- An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie
- Class of 2022 Wait List
- Murals of Senior Haus
- Guide to MIT: Academics
- Quantifying Angst
- Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live
- it’s ok that it’s not ok
- [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel)
- 1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks
- How to decide, when you’re deciding
April 2018
- How to not love CPW but love MIT
- Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs
- The Mathematics of People
- Class of 2020 Ring Delivery
- Journey back Home from PE Class
- Writing I don’t have time for
- Fig. 3: La dolce vita
- The Muti Water Project
- What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015
- Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar
- CPW 2018 Diaries
- Race Against Myself
- The Other Side
- CPW Is Here!
- [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW
- CPW Events We’re Pumped For!
- I went outside!
- Mas33h Hall
- Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment
- Tag Yourself
- Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special
- Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning
- Spring break in Canada
- I’m a Pirate Now
- Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection
- Getting Through a Difficult Month
March 2018
- Visual Arts @ MIT
- It’s Nice to Meet You
- The middle of the semester
- I’m a Muslim Woman and…
- MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round
- Educating myself on education1
- Fig. 2: Frühlingsgefühle
- 25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT
- How to date at an American college
- Fig. 1: Fernweh
- The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean
- 韓国人として習った本当の日本
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- A letter for you
- Folding
- Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie
- Remaking MITadmissions.org
- SEEING WAITRESS TWICE
- These are the decisions you’re looking for.
- Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind
- some food around boston
- February(ish) Updates and Notes
February 2018
- A reading list for a week at MIT
- Managing a Full Plate
- Policies, Principles, and Protests
- MIT Festival of Learning: Expo
- Class of 2020 Ring Premiere!
- what am i doing
- Ciao, Italy! (Part 2)
- MIT and Slavery
- Around the world in 30 days
- MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers
- Semester II: v. hosed
- king cake and a run-on sentence
- 2nd Half of IAP
- Bye
- What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project
- what work is
- Freshman Fifty-Seven
- The Last First Day
- Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right
- Ciao, Italy!
- I(t)A(ly)P
- Because Racecar
- Room 251
- Tidbits of IAP
January 2018
- A Meta Yultide Finale
- Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance
- MIT for Book Lovers
- College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh
- Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017
- Sketches from the Independent Activities Period
- January in Paris
- Why Leadership? (guest post)
- The Aftershock
- A Day of IAP
- FUN Form FAQs
- Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations
- All the Bloggers’ Personalities!
- Speed Walking
- A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter
- I can’t feel my face
- Looking Forward and Backward
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December 2017
- Thoughts for the New Year
- We Were Deferred
- Sketches from the Fall Semester
- we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!?
- The final stretch
- 2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products
- Dear Seniors
- MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted Early
- Open Thread: Deferred Early
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!
- What’s in My Bag?
- Wrapping Up First Semester
- Up To Snow Good
- One Week
- MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET
- Lambda Tea
- hey kids you should apply
- Thanksgiving Nostalgia
November 2017
- Advice for the Applicants
- friday was a good day
- Skating or School?
- How Are You?
- DATA FOR BLACK LIVES
- everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons
- C sail
- Blogger Fam Takes the MFA
- Beaver Nation
- Some Saturday Thoughts
- In case you want to travel over IAP…
- My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set!
- Making Decisions
- LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco
- More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion
- ETH Zürich, hier komme ich!
October 2017
- Three More Tales of Junior Year
- Classes 2.0
- Expedition New England
- Ask Me Anything! Responses
- PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall
- how i’m doing
- Early Action FAQs
- ABCs of Senior Year
- MIT IS …
- Sometimes you just gotta relax
- six minutes in maseeh dining
- QuestBridge 2017 FAQ
- love or lust
- Four days of fun!
- A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus
- Some F Words
- The First UROP
- what a sunrise sounds like
- Wearing the apron
- 10 ft from Hasan Minhaj
- [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard
- Advice for the MIT Interview
- One more baby blogger
- Reaffirming our support for transgender students
- Visualize this! My new UROP
- A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT
- Third times the charm
- Staying in Touch
September 2017
- Sentimental Objects (part one)
- The One Where I’m in Russia
- elephants
- For applicants affected by natural disasters
- HackMIT 2017
- How To Make (almost) Anything
- Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series!
- 42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs
- a semester in notes
- boston at night
- How to (Im)properly Cross Register
- Freshman Fifty-Four
- comic: orientation 2017, in food
- The Swing of Things
- def hackMIT();
- back-to-school special
- Walkin’
- MIT Experience FAQs
- Freshman Year vs. Senior Year
- MIT (Turbo)Votes
- Admissions Videos Over the Years
- Another one!
- Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!
- back 2 school
- Eyes Wide
- Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year!
- An OME Welcome to the Institute
- 100% Completion
- Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers
- Take Off
- Supporting our DACA Students
August 2017
- actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
- Writing the MIT Application Essays
- Advice from Graduating Seniors
- A Person Studying Persons…
- Solar Eclipses and Bloggers
- Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP
- Play Labs
- Calm in Suburban Ohio
- seattle (again)
- From Charlottesville to Cambridge
- PSA: the app is live
- Commencement 2017
- O hai
- Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms
- Things I Regret…
- What I’ve Done (this summer)
- The Case of the Considerate Robbers
- Why I Haven’t Been Blogging
July 2017
- Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions
- Reasons I haven’t blagged…
- places at mit
- Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab
- MIT: Progressions
- data justice for senior house
- The Room Where It Happens
- On the Scattering of Senior House
- senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house
- HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post)
- Three Tales of Junior Year
- The Gender Problem
- Work Hard, Play Hard
- Summer in Boston
- Be A Blogger 2017!
June 2017
- East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents
- Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps
- c/o 2017
- How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community
- The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT
- Skullhouse Road Trip
- Finals away from finals
- Why I Love Taylor Swift
- Google1
- Sophomore Slump
May 2017
- West Coast Trip Report
- friends, and other things
- done done done
- It Ends
- Things3
- Places to Sit at MIT
- Making the hard decision
- My Summer Reading Challenge
- ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures
- Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time
- Class of 2021 Wait List
- how (not?) to concentrate
- I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority
- Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today
- RecomMITted
- why mit
- pictures of home
April 2017
- Lilly Chin
- Humans 101 @ MIT
- Classes: Junior Spring Edition
- Ringing in the second half of MIT
- that time of year…
- MIT Was Great in the 1800s
- Marathon Monday
- Beta CPW
- Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons
- morning room sounds
- Sport CPW
- Skullhouse CPW
- A Tour of Phonology, Part 1
- MacCPW, et al.
- Sailing Spring Break
- Room Tour
- A World of Pure Curation
- How to CPW!
- Lego Heroines
- Reaffirming our support for international students
- MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology
March 2017
- 17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year
- Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings
- A Spring Think
- PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings!
- at/around mit
- The Long Road to Happiness
- Sewing minus the machine
- freshman spring
- MIT Festival of Learning
- MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
- Open Thread: Admitted
- Open Thread: Waitlisted
- Open Thread: Not Admitted
- In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017
- Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT
- Course 18
- Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her
- Glassblowing at MIT
- The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video
- Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes.
- Siete Ciudades de España
- Forty two
- Things That Happened!
- interview: joy buolamwini
- The Joy of Building
February 2017
- Food No Context
- Language
- emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time
- Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus
- Greece
- Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai
- Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild?
- three things i made recently
- Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here
- An Early History of International Students at MIT
- Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP
- Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs
- Stories from High School
- Life during IAP
January 2017
- MIT at Copley Square
- Unity
- #NoBanNoWall
- Realidad Aumentada en Acción
- Augmented Reality in Action
- hello, again
- Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2
- Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1
- Ode to PNR
- Itinerary: IAP 2017
- Forbes and MIT
- Your February Updates & Notes Form
- Fighting Indifference
- rand.random
- The Life Rationing Problem
- Sneezes
- A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days
- a few things from civic media
- The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT
- 21 Firsts
- Units of Measure
- MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM
- here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot
- It’s 2017!
- Mocktails