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• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  ’m okay, this is how i’m trying to sort out my thoughts. typing words on a ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i ... walked into class and sat in my usual chair, and thought about how a young

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 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…

  

  an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the ... nature of the human mind? Much of our work uses a brain imaging method ... Saxe has even discovered a brain region that is specialized for thinking

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

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  case, selection committee is a pretty intense exercise as far as the ... selection committee. (As a guy who is not wired to do science and math, I'd be ... know what? You're a star. Your handwriting is beautiful, you look great

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  drinking out of a fire hose. That's because MIT shoves as much knowledge down ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year and a half. At MIT the equivalent course is 18.01. It takes 3 months. If

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  equally German last name is also on Hillel's mailing list, so at a ... . But whatever, I was a frosh and didn't know how to use Moira to ... wrong with that! But no, really, I'm not Jewish. Not even a little bit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  !” speech, because I’d spend forever and a half gushing about how cool and ... short of a pyromaniac’s. https://youtu.be/ytdqcV3HV4o Is it real fire ... ’s a rough list of common props! This is not an extensive list though

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... . This is what she was wearing: That's right, a giant home-made (albeit

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddartha Mukherjee (nf) This Is How You ... ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... ) as soon as finals is over!) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  and thin strokes, how short the a is compared with the b, the angle of ... mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... mahal kita. It’s neat that kita is a pronoun that doesn’t just indicate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  science, how much does that hurt me?" It is a requirement for all students ... , it is very much okay that you have changed directions a bit. We also ... a broad question huh? What I mean is, how many of you see our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  Rodney Brooks. Call me an idealist, but my favorite of the responses is ... each other instead of simply strategizing on how best to stay on top. He ... require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  actually loved a ton! It was basically just a writing class on how to write ... an obviously not Asian student is a wholeeee story on its own ... all it is an amazing group and if anyone else would like a little more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  told you how much stardew valley i've been playing recently? a lot. i ... learned how difficult it is to define what a "root word" is without being ... uta is harder than being an la. not that it takes more hours a week, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much ... the lap of luxury. This is good, because as a prefrosh, the next thing ... 're sitting under the great dome, and want to have a panic attack about how

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  second is something that spun out of a series of conversations between ... last month. here's an excerpt: How do you know if you have a moral ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is ... will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial ... sometimes i too feel like a square, which is far more likely than me getting

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to ... of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came ... that because this is a personal instinct and not one that is in any way

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an ... college is a community, so it is unlikely they will simply admit you just so

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  discusses how he really enjoys the moments where he sees a student is ... learn. He's not there maybe to show how smart he is or how much he knows ... : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  contractor and project funder enter a contractual agreement for how the work is ... you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... interned for a summer at Uber ATG (Advanced Technologies Group) which is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018