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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  habit hasn’t died, but really it was a decision; I came in determined that ... reading books I don’t like has been somewhat of a challenge for me, because ... no taste anyway, and ample time. It hasn’t returned good results

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... , activities involving precision didn’t come naturally to me. The cookies I baked ... – qualities I most certainly didn’t see in myself. I knew I didn’t fit the mold

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and ... cutting my hair for me after it had gotten particularly wild who didn't make ... a reader who doesn't currently attend MIT. Feel free to leave

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  intelligence” everyone was raving about. Yes, I didn’t want to study neuroscience (6-4 wasn’t around yet), and AI wasn’t much more than a buzzword to me ... at the time, and I was sure I wouldn’t be like that. How dramatically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... to. The 'perfect applicant' doesn't exist, and the college application process itself definitely isn't perfect. You might have felt discouraged

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  resounding endorsement. Saying I’m “from Hawaii” isn’t an entirely true ... care too much about where I was from. It just wasn’t a big part of my ... was “… I don’t think I have any hobbies? Crap! I don't have any hobbies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... get a free Arduino, toolbox filled with tools, MakerLodge T-shirt, and ... included in the program, but they just wouldn’t receive the free stuff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  being by them and the T lines because I like trains. oh, and the places I ... went to the end of a T line was when some of my podmates and I went out to Alewife. We hadn’t seen much of Boston, and it was an enthralling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no ... impression that I had already seen the museum and it wasn't that great. It was ... to go anywhere else. But, it was very much not true that it "wasn't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  being in macgregor and living with other people again. that doesn't ... math and learn math and write websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i can't do it all. what ends up happening is that i end up doing mediocre

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

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  captured the essence of what motivated me, what I said above, what I couldn’t ... couldn’t articulate well enough my perfectly-sane reasons for running every ... city of Boston because I didn’t feel like I moved enough that day. I

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  reference"]Burton 3rd,[/annotation] isn't being allowed to install our iconic ... like visual identity, traditions, and values differently; some don't have ... with the alumni we meet from decades ago even though we wouldn't

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like it”—because people Like Us don’t actually pursue careers at big banks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take ... you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get ... yourself there is no reason you can’t work 24/7 without stopping. There is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  workshop, and, even though I can’t speak for anyone but myself, it felt like ... my free time. I can’t thank Marjorie enough for how kindly she guided ... campus. Even though I wasn't a science person, I loved what I read about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... cabs when travelling alone. The T is not scary. In addition, if you’re on ... that the T is only an option if your plane arrives when the T is actually

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con't ... was, or did. I don't think I ever actually went to NASA; maybe I went to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  community at MIT, and I don't often talk to other MIT students about the stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really ... grade school doesn't really deserve to be called "math." It

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  Services and Technology. (Yeah, IS&T's website is sort of an embarrassment, isn't it? Apparently they were planning to replace it with a new ... bureaucracy.) So what does all that mean? Well, IS&T runs all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... or an F, the class doesn't get recorded on your transcript -- it's as ... was pretty difficult for me academically, since I didn't take AP Physics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006