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• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  ] Mounted curtains to the underside of my loft, creating a cozy nook where I ... its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... guilty. The Stata Center continues to still look so weird, like a fantastic

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  holiday festivities, from a couple of pop-up shops to a performance of ... . It was also here that I had my yearly crisis where I somehow find ... DECEMBER to go to a tree lighting ceremony?? Instead of putting those elves

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a ... public, are also invited to a celebration of the day hosted by the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  I inexplicably neglected to get a picture of, featured a real mosaic ... DID YOU KNOW? This World Cup was the first time that a country ... -Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  things through her. Things like hacks :) It was a matter of some dismay to ... . MIT Hackers did a little to welcome the Dome back to the world of sight: (All Hack Photo Credit to Eric Schmiedl) Yup, that's a bandaid. Our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... weird to listen to an opera, think that it must be in a foreign language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  this exercise: find a friend. Pick one to be the doctor, and the other ... hopefully pick up enough phrases to find a job outside of the factory ... extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to ... had to fulfill my familial duties. Sometimes life gives you a pair of ... falling is not a good way to learn how to skate. My famline tried to teach

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious ... bird. That’s generally a very lucky thing to be at any time except for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  learn a little bit more about life at MIT. MIT's blogs have started to ... useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... . The goal is to try to show a bit of everything. To be fair, 12 students

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  , or to put it another way, a total wuss. I avoid compromising situations, whether it be going to a party where I don’t know many people, or refusing to try a back dive off the board even when all the younger kids do it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  school looks for. I want to become an engineer, so finding a good school ... weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them: Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  do feel out-of-practice after a year in quarantine, struggling to find ... . Blogging is, in many ways, parasocial — a medium where you try to perceive me ... have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... —operates a factory, Trey—launches rockets, Renae—finds cures for diseases ... that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... related. CPW just happens to be a good time to get a head start on getting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -cycle and announced their intent to admit a handful of out-of-state students ... took a brief detour to beautiful Maxwell AFB, Alabama to dedicate my ... I was least likely to pursue as a pre-med—and eventually a gynecologic

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  . Upon finding out that college was a thing, we made more or less a pact to ... Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of ... , we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long ... ticket' for MIT admissions. With regard to KVPY, it certainly has a lower ... to earn a degree in nursing (she works part-time as a nursing assistant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005