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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful ... a musical proto-language arose from selection for sex and sociability ... compete for resources and face hardships. Music induces release of "feel

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the ... relies on resources - time and people - as fuel for information. I’m always ... cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , more than two, but only two matter here) lists in MailChimp for any given admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority ... Oudenaarden, my 8.03 professor. (Thanks for that, Sam.) On Wednesday, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  ’re getting trained in and feedback on. At least for me, I have trouble ... optimize the design of the bridge. Now, I’m a news editor for The Tech (MIT ... it ate up a lot more time than it needed to. The good thing about the

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... , the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a ... of imagery and symbolism, it makes for a good conversation piece, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... affects twenty colleagues' work. (I'm completely making these numbers up ... very messy rationalization. But you can absolutely take my word for my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... here, at this moment in time. Do you know how hard you've worked up until ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  Having slept for a solid 8 hours last night, I'm finally awake enough ... some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... good school for pre-med students, especially since you've no doubt heard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  that had been available for my browsing pleasure since December, I didn ... . Really that could sum up my experience – in fact, all of that food was ... classmates. That’s what really showed me that I can see myself at MIT for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  from Ramya '14! You might think that CPW stands for Campus Preview ... substitute for all of the other million pictures I could have taken, I'll use ... ended up not dyeing my hair...) to many more events that I wish I had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... , where all my media stops: I was playing for the rest of the night and, as ... the show, getting the audience to sing or get up and dance along, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... electroplushies at this SEBC event? they will be taking us for dinner after. If this ... know if you would be able to drop by! Thanks I, for one, thought this

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  Keith Zizza take the stage for the performance of a medley from the ... for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more up-tempo and driving sounds of action games. The rest of the evening

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  dorms on campus where you can paint your own walls and string up your own ... —our dorm has a certain amount of funding set aside for student painting projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  like? Was it as nice as Gmail? It's time for some answers! To check your ... ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... ). Setting up your MIT e-mail with Thunderbird is straightforward and MIT IS

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... when the leaders of Chi Alpha genuinely thanked me for coming and putting

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had ... find the best student representatives. (For example, the US begins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading ... many extracurriculars. Ask anyone; being on the executive board for MedLinks, producing the IAP show for the Musical Theatre Guild, doing a UROP full

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  remember for my entire life. Plus, if I can run a marathon in sleet and get a ... ended up learning the true meaning of determination. Or that I lost three ... dorm room, and I think my weekend was a lot happier for it. Special

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007