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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  This past Friday, I was in lab from [annotation note='IMPORTANT NOTE ... , over 90% of students will participate in a UROP before graduating, making it ... D students and post-docs in their labs to work on their current research

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lonely but exciting road and choosing to traverse it

  

  the world” So you make it up In the hope that you'll be something more ... think that I can do some good in the world around me. I have to build on something, have to move forward, bring the world forward somehow. Maybe in a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  questions in the comments section! I'll update this post with my answers ... answers in the evenings (Eastern Time), but I'll try to keep an eye on the ... found helpful in high school though was reading through the admissions

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... ] = Curry pizza Mixing foods from the same station can result in surprising

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "] barcelona, with casa battló in the background[/caption]   If there ... turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one ... anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  be likable in her posts. She’s not quite as funny as I am. I’ve still ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first time in my life (it was a modular synth techno set, if you were curious

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one video generated from the prompt “Soccer players in purple celebrate as the ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  people at mit"? i think it's mostly undergrads, people in related friend ... would answer differently in theory because what i like is my personal ... much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... 't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew a lot in the previous year, and I feel much more grounded and clear

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... happening at one end of the gymnasium. In fourth grade, Call Me Maybe was the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  're released? yeahhh"]Yesterday,[/annotation] I woke up around noon in my dorm room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart’s content in this room. I usually set an alarm even on weekends. But yesterday

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... in. I barely wrote during the spring, save for my intensive writing class, in which I still struggled to write most of my essays. Regarding

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... Celebration, a three-day conference for women in computer science. It was so ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in ... submitting ridiculous dance videos? Well, one of the puzzles in this hunt was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022