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• 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 & ... an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the ... faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard

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

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  woman called out: “Please, will you help us? We need somebody who is very strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i ... bad when a friend wants to say "hello" or if a heavy object is about to ... then justify it with a tagline ("Life is Random") and create awesome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  , then… 2 days in Los Angeles, then spend a day driving up to ... because they were lacking in the low-voices department. This is my first ... . That is, until November!! With vaccines working, Hadestown performed in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  artist group in residence performing a free community concert of medieval ... Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  good idea to live in a quad because I'd get to meet three other people ... . Here we are, Baker 411, in December 2003. (You'll note I had a mustache. What a bad idea.) Living in Baker availed me the opportunity to be in

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  're the guy who writes updates and stats about the class." That isn't who I was, but it's who I've become, for a variety of reasons. Maybe sometime ... At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a ... , there is a well-documented psychological phenomenon called impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome, says Wikipedia, is "a psychological phenomenon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York, dorm residents would be fined if they so much as stuck a tack in the wall

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  (who is also coming to Maine) lives in Orange County, so he a) drove us ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of ... family, but in reality I am just an overpacker.) Adam's dad is driving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  that a course invented then [the 80's] is still so dead on in what ... unbelievably hosing. This particular post, though, is about a particularly well ... with it coming in. And because of this, the class has gotten a lot of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high ... reread someday. thankfully, listening to an album is a lot less committal

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... comforting words, my friends and I made a video in December for EA applicants ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  strong they are. Anyone who puts in the effort required (which is quite a ... analogy to respond that Unified is hard in the same way that running a ... to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  send in a CD recording of you performing (cassette tapes are also ... separate sheet of paper is most common. In general, third recommendations ... research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  outdated. So, I’m in HackMIT! HackMIT is a 24-hour college hackathon ... is also the first time in my three years as a design student where I ... photography is different from digital photography in that it requires a lengthy

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  who don't: the MIT class ring (a.k.a. Brass Rat) is not only one of the most recognized rings in the world but also pretty much the single item ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... unit" in some area other than physics Now, this is ideal for a double ... Institute Requirements (GIRs). For reference, a "normal" courseload is 48

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  is All the fruit, hosted by a man who introduces every video by saying ... housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... well from a surprisingly small pot with very little attention. Here is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021