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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  Carnegie Endowment, a think tank that's based in D.C, studying democratization and governance in China. Given that I'm a twig, it never ceases to amuse me that the other fellow in my program is a certified body builder

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of ... cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  in a variety of positions. After a person’s body is correctly segmented ... traditions in favor of a European education. The novel is really compelling in ... lot of documentation in my future! Most notably: A few weekends ago, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal ... . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  - because of a particular policy ecology in which it lives. That ecology is ... . It is a bad bill, which if enacted would become bad law: bad law with ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... of 3."](13[/annotation] units): This is a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... documents in record time. As a result, we are already having a great reading ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  deciding... "Anonymous" wrote, "I have a Q: is MIT gay-friendly? (intl here ... Relations and would like to study abroad in China. Can you tell me about MIT ... minor in Applied International Studies. As for going abroad to China, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  airfield in the Beskidy mountains which we use for our event. Second is a ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... the author documents their friend jack’s descent into heroin addiction ... from drugs is worth the destruction of everything else, from a strictly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  unreasonable amounts of time on something is a classic IAP move. In IAP mindset ... January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  is frustrated with a lack of secure, simple, elegant storage options ... on Season 2 of Beauty and the Geek. Matt Herman '06 was a contest in ... , including "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition;" she is now CEO of Lifetime. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  . This is in no way helpful, especially since there is now a human being in ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... and BC. A fair amount of time is definitely not what you have right now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , a small city in the Liaoning Province of China. My grandparents have ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  is the Morris water maze. In a nutshell, you put the mouse into a ... , which is one of the top three journals in biology. And I get to be co-author ... But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  cactus is Alex L. ‘18’s. Alex was in the lounge, building a Fibonacci state ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  their extended family in China, and touches on a lot of themes I find ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... ://alan-z.herokuapp.com/static/faure.mp3 "Maria, mater gratiæ" is a setting of a portion of the hymn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  965 is in Python. Although Python may seem like a blasphemous choice for ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... this class is a “special subject” (typically a limited-edition or

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  Minsky, and my future image of myself was in a white coat tinkering with ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... little line-follower from tupperware, a comparator, and two photosensors in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009