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• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  technological edge that you need to really make progress." These days, he said ... genetics. So now, he said, it makes more sense to locate brain science in a ... Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... seems to have grown each year. This year, we had around 70 signups and we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events ... interested students were disappointed that they did not live close enough to Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... alert. After opening the email, what I began to read about seemed like a ... by the Dupont-MIT Alliance, and Dupont recently donated another $25

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  art or just the societal pressure to make small talk in quiet rooms, the ... Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had ... Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We

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

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] I was once told, "If you come into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  revolutionary technology being developed at MIT by the Self Treading Insole Design ... incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid ... algorithm-based sensory attachment that connects to any footwear insole, uses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  office by checking out the concert by the Chorallaries. Hundreds of people have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy/musical pun name only rivaled by the MIT Logarhythms). [This is my second live

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  -of-work. it took a while to come up with all these reasons for making my life ... present to alternate-vincent that would make them feel invalidated. there is ... are equally valid then it no longer makes sense for me to judge people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  music I'd tried to analyze a few years ago, and some of it makes a lot ... , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share with you all, but I'm not really sure where to start, so I figure

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... , I'll share my thoughts on what's hot and what's not. So I'll make the disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  , I wanted to duck out for a moment to let you know that, as the title ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th ... . As soon as you log in, you will receive your decision, so make sure you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has resorted to some fairly ridiculous ways to kill time, including an ongoing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  after bundling up to make the hike from Next House to my classes. 9 ... . This week at least, the cold hasn’t been unbearable. I have time to make ... between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  Like a great three-toed sloth awakening from a millennial hibernation, it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... to live in a hovel so foul it makes The Road sound like utopia, but

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011