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  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... and Diseases of the Nervous System, 1-4pm—the final elective I need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... celebrity!!! On the FPOP, we got to visit the graves of many Founding Fathers, town halls where revolutionary meetings took place, and the first

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick and I put together the cheese mix, and Rob (just visible in the top of ... roll of aluminum foil and covered the first pan as Rick stared on in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the ... request the name of some other nearby EC who'll be happy to talk with you. (3) Interviews and parts of the application: I've interviewed students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  make it better. The first draft of that is here: [visually ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... . Spontaneity was essentially thrown out of the window. By the end of the work day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a ... , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  have something for the first day of learning. -- basic life supplies ... a sunny day. Boston traffic halts with the first drops of rain ... . Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... a lot of fun with the people at my table (yeah table 12!), it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red ... the size of a tangerine. It’s nothing really that special—there were ... lanyard holds the key to my soon-to-be home, even if it lacks keys to any of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  read the first chapter of Fun Home at the start of my junior year of high ... into their stream of consciousness. (This is maybe the first book I ... letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  could I ever regain the excitement of the first 8.01 pset when problem set ... came the first major snowfall of the year. I ventured outside before ... The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  video, Shruthi ‘16. She was one of the first dancers to ever truly inspire ... embracing. CK reminded us of the first time he painted his nails and how ... buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a ... , which runs throughout the month of January"]IAP.[/annotation] I also got ... representative for SAAS(South Asian Association of Students), a member of the Mech

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty ... missing the fast pace of studies. Students also grew accustomed to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  started MIT if I hadn't deferred) was one of the main reasons I was first ... projects all over the world. There are a whole slew of these pay ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side. The best part of the whole thing was taking this picture. Sausalito ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research ... are slowly becoming an adult In part, the fact that so much of your

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Anyway, this happened: 1.5 pages later, the moral of the story was ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009