Search

Search Results

• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  should also click the links. If you want to see more of YQ’s paper art, you ... ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few ... part of OrigaMIT, MIT’s paper folding club. MIT has a really cool and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  (like the wonderful 18.S097 Special Subject in Mathematics: Introduction ... a UROP, for a total of 69 hours of intended work. That’s three 12-unit ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  of pieces. One of the TA’s was even dressed as R.B. Woodward, MIT ... easiest costumes to pull off: ninja. Krystal’s Guide to Being a Ninja in 10 ... -ish T-shirts that you’ve hoarded from career fair, borrow someone else’s

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  York Times bestselling!) novelist who’s also written comics for Marvel ... first page, but it’s still about three years older than the second image ... eventually got connected with First Second, Macmillan’s comics publishing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  (Barbara Streisand lyrics—too optimistic; “The Fool’s Prayer” by Edward R ... was the perfect time to go to 103 Irving Street. As in, Julia Child’s ... part about Julia Child’s cat. That must have been the luckiest cat in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  needs. What is leadership? Some say that it’s being the president of a ... different situations, we see that a leader doesn’t fit a mold. That’s why ... opportunities on campus that can be tailored for a student’s particular need. It’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  i. the sleeping hummingbird Here’s something you should know about me ... local cemented me as their weekend trip’s official tour guide. I took us ... around as I desperately tried to align myself with the patient app’s arrow

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  true? I think so. Nearly every time I’ve heard this phrase, it’s been ... terribly mispronounced a mathematician’s name to the professor (Dirichlet, if ... learn the material and pass the class. What’s shocking about this to me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , who also happens to be MIT’s choir director, invites Concert Choir ... . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I ... , with a short break in the middle. It’s the first time since March 2020

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . it felt real, attainable.']that’s how the bloggers’ voices made me feel ... . i would learn to love science for science’s sake, not because i needed ... popeyes and quickly’s with my mom, who told me to be cautious about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  called HMMT. Princeton’s version of this is called PUMAC. HMMT sends a ... ? What was there to talk about with them? It’s not as if I wanted to talk ... friends from HMMT at PJ’s, but with none of the friends I had from PROMYS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  dad, I suppose.” “But Amy’s coming too,” Melissa replied. “She sounds ... cats liquefy my mom’s heart.” “I think it’s the bacon not the cats,” she ... seated, his usual blank eyes glaring Ted’s way, making a thousand judgments

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... radially symmetric conelike shape. It’s important that the clay is properly ... one pound each. It’s easier to center smaller amounts of clay, because

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... it’s correct. When all the factors align and you really come to a ... also hard. It’s so much easier to try and do everything yourself, with no

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  four student-athletes, from the Swimming, Diving, Squash, and Men’s ... -athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be ... of a ton of athletes.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “I have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  2024’s,[/annotation] some of the admissions officers were talking about ... interest in math pales in comparison to Paige’s, so I focused our ... that Jeremy was able to experience a part of recently. Jeremy: It’s a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  mathematical computing) this semester, and I blow glass in MIT’s glass lab. The ... course banner was Schrodinger’s equation inside a comic-book exclamation ... brought several hands-on demos for the audience (including a sheep’s brain

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  policy concentration, and it’s much HASS-ier than 14.03 (meaning it has ... think it’s interesting and useful to learn about policies that have been ... : what are they, how do they work, and why might we use them? It’s taught

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  of religious fasting, so it’s really nice to find a nice vegan place even though it’s packed most of the time. I also found out that vegan ... so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a Dream” speech. Fittingly, I gave the ... of my voice that I was once again reminded of. It feels like it’s been ... earliest to its latest stages, and across the board, it’s really something

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018