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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  University School of Medicine have found that the quarter to half of dyslexic ... the University of Louisville, Kentucky, has found that dyslexics also ... This is my final paper for Science Journalism, a science writing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth aware of itself. Maybe New York was like that too, full of feelings I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness ... past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  Biology 5.112 Principles of Chemical Science 8.01 Physics I 24 ... MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never ... coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  that I loved math and science for what I call the “humanities side of ... parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  Science. I’m glad I’ve learned so many things, and I’m glad MIT gave us all ... pause and take in everything around you. Some of you have already gotten in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and technology. Through recognition of architecture as a liberal
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

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

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in ... among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on ... the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017