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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... weekend, I blew off steam by going on retreat with my hall (3rd East) to New ... areas are privy to more opportunities than others, and the admissions

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... philosophy that "has the potential to make a positive contribution to society." That recognition takes the form of an award ranging from $10,000 to $50

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  So it's mid July, Summer is well underway, all the major Holidays have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don ... the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  now she's at the center for civic media, working on projects that ... recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the ... , was it about the pose, what was going on? And then I read this report

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... love reading. i haven't spoken about how much i love it on the blogs yet ... sophomore year of high school but decided to pick it up again because of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  part of me understands that the extent to which other people are put ... that these days i try not to hate anything, because the act of hating is ... take a very long time to respond to texts, which in the grand scheme of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is ... to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I ... cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... added, "MIT also encourages us to think about the future as much as the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... (everyone's got to do them but at the same time, you're all thinking "pass

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester ... ’re sitting there confused, about to call the Admissions office, don’t worry ... free to contact the office. I already graduated high school or I’m not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the ... that a lot of our friends recommended. It was freezing. We got on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  students better understand the really-hard-to ... bad ideas." The idea is to solicit student-made web interactives ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  on the green line at Fenway but am I supposed to? What's the best ... am discovering who I am and building the person I want to be. I am learning the opportunities and obstacles attached to autonomy. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... there was no way that was going to happen. The suggestion about dressing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... week, on average (the first month we read one book per week, circa 200

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• 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…

  

  Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... called functional MRI, which enables us to watch small parts of the human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an ... views for granted. I had to learn about both sides, understand the ... opposed to "passively", is the key word there. I had to build my own beliefs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  're here. When you stroll down the Infinite on your way to class with a ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006