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• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in 1980, and her Ph.D. in Course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences), also from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  0:17 in the video Google put out on Gmail’s new redesign ... changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... myself in the future or even sooner as summer intern. Photo Credit

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate ... most knowledgeable in the art of concentration Write blog post on how

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  MISTI's eleven country programs offer internships in every MIT ... fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... -India Program 2011 Internship: Google India, Bangalore The project

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... .  I have this friend who, lately, will not stop replacing lyrics in

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of toys: Oculus Rifts, Pebble watches, Google Glasses, Arduinos, breadboards

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit ... my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the ... -less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character. I basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and ... sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and ... everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn ... far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case, Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  mit grad class, an anthropology class in qualitative research methods ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  doesn't really set in that they're an MIT student until they send their ... username that you won't be embarrassed sharing with your professors. In ... ://web.mit.edu/yourusername. Neither of these methods are foolproof, but they are good first checks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... methodical. But there's no denying it. The wide eyes of childhood met the ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  .  But the current method of launching space telescopes in single payloads ... in Yosemite this summer. While cragging with some friendly strangers ... chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... mind had ran thought marathons of all kind. It was in that auditorium ... into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018