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• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  archery, dance, and sailing, all for slightly different reasons. Fire ... things do catch fire. And for every prop we spin and every move we try, we spend hours practicing it off fire before we try it on fire for the first

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... admissions or read applications for a living (though I did ask someone who does ... . You’ve probably got important reasons for wanting to transfer. My

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  isn’t. For something more fancy, color changes are cool too! Give your ... ="A girls’ math contest hosted at MIT every year"]Math Prize for Girls,[/annotation] I was entranced by the instructions for a simple origami cube laid out

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl ... 't unsee the work behind these products. There's a bajillion people for every nibbly little step. This job made me have a deeper appreciation for not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... ="at least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states ... , although you sometimes forget where you locked it up and for a split second

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself ... of art or read a book for enjoyment in a while, but I don't know how I ... friend pauses thoughtfully for a few minutes and then begins to talk. The

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A ... my little sister will inspire me to go to more. I’ve found outlets for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  phone. As Ajay found his profile for me, Lupe sighed. "This is what I was ... true to yourself, and rap is such an explosive medium that asks for so ... old, I realized for the first time that everybody else experienced

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  's pretty common around here for people to use our October long weekend ... visited before, for the primary reason that it was a nice-looking park that you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  about myself, for a while. i felt better for days, weeks, even. but then ... behind. did you ever think about how awful it felt for them? dan: don ... for kidnapping. cj: it was ridiculous, frankly. alan: but it happened

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of effort into my work only to receive bad grades for them. And sure, grades

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... rest of RingComm, presented our designs for the 2020 brass rat! It was ... for the presentation, so it all worked out! Kidist: After several

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... and trivial. for example, when i draw, i'm spurred by the prospect of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... for the bad wiring. I have never worked with a breadboard prior to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... where Ruby and Sapphire fuse for the “first” time again. Watching the cast

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... by semester or department and search for keywords. ((Side note: It ... there are in their speech. For example: did you know that children often

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  for a ten day immersion into the epidemic. Taught by Dr. Bruce Walker ... . It doesn't take long for our heartbeats to naturally fall into sync ... for the future: "I'm going to finish the FRESH program and go to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  swanky hotel in the early 1900’s, then it was a grad dorm for 70 years, so ... leave for class 3 minutes before it starts has been a game-changer. 3 ... my ID and being trapped in the lobby for all eternity. 2) White walls

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... take a break from the weird food analogy for now. (Sidenote: if by now

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017