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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  contributions to the field of linguistics in my Intro to Linguistics class (24 ... States. We believe one of the most effective means of combating militarism ... that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... within a taped square on the other side of the gym. I don’t suppose

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like, then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the ... polish them; the rest of the paragraphs just become a way to link the main

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  “someone needs to get fractal161 on green building tetris someday” it's tetris two electric boogaloo

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-holy-grail-of ... back in the fall of my first year was intended to be a Mario movie watch ... instead (and some of the VGO exec members were modding the chat??) Some kind

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s ... = Lighting Design; 21G.501 = Japanese 1; 14.73 = The Economics of World Poverty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... resident tutor). The dormitory consists of two parallel buildings officially

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... scaffold protein found in the post-synaptic density (PSD) of neurons. It ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not ... is my progress report of sorts, starting from the goals I didn ... : Over the years, I’ve bought a bunch of sketchbooks but haven’t actually

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International ... competition, advancement of synthetic biology, and the development of open

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... stress out about the consequences of not understanding well enough, and screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  put on by the Museum of Science. Co-produced by Amanda Parkes from the ... ' piece "Piezing" gleans energy from the movement of the wearer's body ... collection of solar paneled accessories. The pieces are each so ornate it is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school uses a ... the Self-Reported Coursework Form from the Part 2 of the application ... response box from the Part 2. The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250 words

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn ... different types of documentary, from the classically framed interview to cin ... not the same). One of my favorite films that we watched is Chronique d

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a week and is open to people of all levels. Jason Ku, the president of the ... little sailor being grabbed by the giant squid! Check out some of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... of people since even though the question pool is the same, the ... you're equipped with the insight/perspectives of friends from previous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020