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• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  engineering internship at a startup.  How it’s going so far: I feel super lucky ... -uniform hypergraphs. How it’s going so far: After I was accepted to the ... it’s been pretty manageable so far. Graph theory is fun! And writing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen’s ... dual-purpose sake of nostalgia and decluttering my desktop, let’s take a ... every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  [/annotation] who were trying to [annotation note="Wait, that’s hilarious 😂 - Felix ... ="lmao who’s this nerd? -Alison"]league[/annotation] that featured memes and a ... be [annotation note="so funny story. Petey’s rejection email actually

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  the point I could squat both the bar, plus 30 pounds. That’s a whole 75 pounds being lifted purely by the sheer[annotation note="ok, there’s other ... . To be completely honest, I can’t see a future where that’s true for me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  class, what can we say. Do we have regrets? What’s the status of our 21E vs. CMS struggle? The short answers are no regrets and it’s (more ... opposed to other REST’s because of its applications in Computer Graphics and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• 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 / 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