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  Neuroscience classes

  

  other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... -explanatory. And then, there's the others (up through the current term), by subfield ... experience shapes the brain. Pure Cognitive Science 24.900 (Intro to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... about why sophomore fall is such a grind. We came to the conclusion that ... People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the people i've seen in real life i couldn't really get too close to. so ... . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class from the obscure whereabouts of Building 1 to the calm expanse of Killian

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... working on sewing projects like the flower Amy '10 is making below: Trust ... dates. We'll take the top bidders out to see movies or to Toscanini

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my ... , traveling alone is also an experience that I think can change the way you see ... took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process ... their trees. As I walked to the student center to get lunch today and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  you are getting excited! CPW is overwhelmingly awesome), but take a look: This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video ... collection) will be displayed at a time. The idea is to give folks a glimpse

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  aardvark, where is the banana and why is that man chartreuse?" Answers to ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... , there seems to be more interest in the program this year than ever before

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... Admissions blogs -- including blogs by three admissions officers, the Director ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18 Hornet. At MIT, she is the ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... applying to my programs. (I got a better score on the GRE than I did on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  -institutional hubs it is establishing to rapidly advance the application of ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  hours! Hurricane aside, the resort is designed to keep you constantly ... some pictures. Flying into the Dominican Republic: Getting closer to ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... days, followed by several weeks of solidifying the class, selecting the ... long time, but I assure you, it is better not to rush such important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list ... Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012