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• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  house, looking for people to bother. I spot Noah in the basement. "What ... whole house comes over for lunch. There are twelve of us in all, and we ... alone in MIT again." We talk for a while about how we ended up living in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  blue sky through the skylight. (I did this yesterday for almost an hour ... headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  continuously forgot that Prague is in the Czech Republic for like, a decade? Ever ... ="121904" /] And that was it! In the morning I packed up for Germany.   What I ... . I don't like solo travel...at least, in Europe. I'm not an extroverted

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3 ... over and over. And sometimes I would look at myself in the mirror and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  history of the Kazakh people in story and song, and went for long dawn runs ... information for international students here on our website, if you're an ... International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• 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…

  

  .   You will soon have an ID card that can get you into E25 after hours. For ... to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of

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

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang ... Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  inside a windowless room in the basement for an hour because the door broke ... an interactive diagram [annotation note="The new numbering system is ... like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  looking for permanence in a world where nothing is permanent, where even ... changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that ... an ending, do they act any differently? For the past seventeen months

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  the parents in the crowd. So if you are a student looking for info about MIT or the college process, you are in the wrong post. SCRAM! This is an ... philosophical issues and solutions for surviving the college decision process. In

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  concrete box in an act of container recursion? Finally, how can one ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  debate is still in the works and will likely continue for the next couple ... the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. We

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. We

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  , and loved it! So in an effort to encourage you to go around Boston (or ... ", there's nothing to do except appreciate it for how good it looks. I haven ... least an ocean to walk to and ponder my melodramatic nature over. And

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took ... for college credit or doing field studies (in marine biology or medicine, for example) both in the United States and abroad. Boston University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  't look so bad!! But needless to say, I was not an expert. It was okay ... , collapse in my chair, and crochet for hours. I finished my first big project ... -- the banana lounge is actually an incomm project"]UA Incomm

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  took one last look for birds, and this time, I saw species.  In total ... in the world wouldn't do you any good, if you didn't know how to look ... exciting discovery for all of humanity, as exaggerated as that may sound. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  , 'An opportunity like this doesn’t happen in Wyoming.' Thanks to STORY ... institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... ="attachment_101815" align="alignleft" width="225"] We visited the Old Spanish Caves in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024