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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  is to cut myself a break and realize that it’s ok to feel uncertain and ... to enjoy myself. I hope the main takeaway from reading this is that it’s ... internship search, with another semester’s wisdom under my belt to decide what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• 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 / How to Food

  Massachusetts Institute of Eggs ranking MIT's eggs

  

  Availability in dining halls (because if we can’t get them then what’s even the ... S- tier: Shakshuka egg- [carousel image1="129156" image2 ... even a mid shakshuka is an S. Taste: 5/5  The eggs were runny and it

  • by Leanne F. '30
  • October 21, 2026
• 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 / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  visualizing rotations of two- and three-dimensional shapes in one’s mind, and ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of ... objective science. And statistically speaking, he’s right. It is true that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  summer he’s interning at JPL (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) doing research ... be best described as Caltech’s parallel to the “East Side” of MIT, with ... Ricketts House (another one of Caltech’s South Houses) for their open mic

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• 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 MEng '27
  • 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