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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... each other within a certain area of the bird’s brain, and the ... electrical signals from surrounding neurons to the cell body of the neuron

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to choose any topic or field to explore in the realm of computational

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  deadline has passed, the admissions officers are spending the bulk of our time evaluating the thousands of applications we've received. This evaluation process will continue throughout the month of November. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the ... . The promise of free food has been known to draw together crowds of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• 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…

  

  from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT

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

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never ... prepared for an amazing time, complete with the prospect of little to no sleep. There'll be free food everywhere, random events in the middle of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... junior year of college. The workload has increased substantially, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  Kai being athletic now,” S said. I thrilled at the idea of one of my old friends, who’d known me back when I failed each and every single one of the ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the ... until the family-friendly venues close, and you can join the crowd of bar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  other interns…as well the quirky side of Beijing. A few days ago, an ... 's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead ... you. One of the most important characteristics of MIT students is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pointless, but not so hard that most of the class couldn't do it. 'Twas I who ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the easiest and the most realistic. No one has ever walked out of an exam saying

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... first final showed that everyone* interviewed found the answer by one of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... learn and practice some or all of the following: lightweight composite
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions ... fillings have all the same number of symbols, or all different numbers of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of ... -lovers). Since I've become a member of the MIT community, I've found the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George Keller '48. He lived in the Bay Area, was chairman of Chevron Oil at the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the ... in Cambridge, a new land of activity and opportunity, all the while ... the same principle of a resident versus a tourist. If you live in New

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  most I've ever seen of the Super Bowl was Kendrick Lamar's performance ... , so my lack of football knowledge is embarrassing. The Alabama ... me that she was the child of a Romeo-and-Juliet situation because her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026