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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  in my perception of what makes me happy. This all sounds Hallmark card cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come ... . Before I left home for Boston, my parents asked me the million dollar

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... be happy to meet with me. Absolutely mortified at the idea that they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100 ... ago so that undergrads like me can use these tools for this exact

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive ... deranged. And don’t even get me started on quantum “computers”. I bet you ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... listening to me and reminding me that I am capable of handling everything ... offices. Before I knew it, people I didn’t know existed were helping me

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... ), he actually asked his mom for help and gave me pointers, which I am ... and Wati, my physics UROP mentor have been incredibly patient with me as

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  .), but my favorite instance was a particular rendition of “All of Me,” by ... always makes me smile. [caption id="attachment_104251" align ... jumpscared me while I was waiting for my next class to start! It looked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  was about the college experience that drew me. Fresh out of high school ... you’re telling me if I listen to The Periodic Table Song all night I ... -”    “Too late. Just watch me.”    —   One minute, you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... idea struck me. “Hey Steven,” I said as I held my phone up against the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me ... ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... East, the more it dawned on me that they won't be here next year. We were

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with ... my friend would tell me about another class on computational art that took everything in me not to add to my schedule.  Above all else, I love

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn ... would be wasted on menial labor. If I'm not careful, life will pass me ... reminded me again that working a full-time job can make the days seem like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  's the kind that makes me want to move my head to the music, to move my ... the people who are on stage—that brings me so much more joy. when i think about it, it startles me how much performing arts there are in mit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... in[/annotation], and he kind of just blinked at me and went,  “You ... affected me at all, because there were people who managed to do an incredible

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two ... food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me, thinking I ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... choices made for this building. The color scheme in particular annoys me, as ... amoeba shaped cutouts that are just so weird and vaguely remind me of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i ... deferred. but part of me really wanted not to worry about the regular app ... a few days. the night i found out i was deferred, i wrote: Watch me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  /minor/concentration-related thought that has ever so slightly come into my head? It led me to think back to being a high schooler and how one of the things that worried me ... how college has led me to not pressure myself to stay in one lane or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  definitely didn’t want to write about the things that made me sad. We’re all ... pain but that scared me, so I never finished.  I think I don’t want to ... . For me, these steps are to go running, [annotation note="like maybe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... interested in getting to know me- personally- other than my resume, or my ... friend (also international) calls me and swears she’s moving to Canada (she

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020