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  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how ... beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would ... away), there promises to be possibly the best of the area's events ... Newtonville Books' party so awesome? For one, there's going to be a musical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  course. For example, you don't need to know how to sketch a hyperbolic ... by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  rejections. She learned how to play the guitar and kept trying. She has a hand ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  on a regular basis is proportional to how much you need to be reminded ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not ... your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  how to play the piano. I can't say I like it more than any of my physics ... a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that "if you come up to Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  depending on how many dances you elect to do, you have between 1 and 6 hours ... ecstatic to show them the results of how hard i'd worked over IAP. we weren ... can breathe. it was also difficult to figure out how to eat enough to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and we will see how the rest of it goes. I am certain to learn a lot ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... listening to: two people, one white, one Black, discussing race relations

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  have taught me how to puzzle, laughed hysterically with me at 3am, and ... , there are plenty of other hunts to do, and even more puzzles to solve. How ... .[/annotation] As someone fairly attached to the Next community, I was initially kind

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  how more energy is required to eject electrons that are closer to the ... the descriptions that will then be given to an illustrator. Then this ... easy to follow path. Comic books, though, are static images that rely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... it to last a second in a department where everyone seems to be premed

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  We are pleased to announce that MIT admissions decisions will be made available online in addition to the standard postal mailing. We expect to ... MyMIT. Decisions will be available to those who meet all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006