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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…

  

  discovered several parts of the brain that are very specialized for particular ... Saxe has even discovered a brain region that is specialized for thinking ... , and how they arise in development--as well as looking for other special

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

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  grandparents' flat was torn down to make more room for roads. I've gone to school ... ideas. A restlessness that keeps me searching. And above all a love for ... all this for Arecibo or if I just copied and pasted from some college

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I ... you make it through a hellish week here. That hellish week for me is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  advice courtesy of Sara Ferry '11. It's time for some more Boston advice ... ," not like "coh-opp." Now for places around Boston: Copley Square ... for y'all in case you aren't motivated enough to make your own. More

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  made my way down to Chinatown, where I went shopping crazy for my peeps back home. I brought home a Chinese newspaper and a few gifts for my special lady in Minnesota, along with a couple of trinkets for my family. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance ... we head for Briggs Field where everything was coming to a head. On our ... rocket do, Jesse? For those that are interested, this is our official

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... the party so that I could pretend to sleep for half an hour before getting ready for class. I'm glad I was there. It's one of those things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... Sloan faculty heard the desires of the MIT community for a recognized

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  day, then I'm catching the redeye to Boston at 10 PM. Look for me to answer a bunch of questions later today. For right now, I just want to be a little lazy and watch TV -- I've been talking to people almost nonstop for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I ... , here's a shout out to the Lego Lab for being cool enough to work with ... you could all decide for yourselves about the MIT campus: Coming Soon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... (or burning, for that matter), there was just a lot of evaporating ... dorms (yay for people making the most of Rush!). And there was Hall Rush

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... , Paul Gray, and Chuck Vest. Finally, the moment we'd all been waiting for ... day." It's a new era for MIT. And a very exciting one. Anyway, that

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  the Last Dance For Me. I must say that I do like the crooners. (Michael ... course, a big reason for the it being named that, aside from the popularity ... ), This One Jazz Bar. A freshman yelled at me this year for supporting women

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... more on its pictures to tell story rather than its dialogue. For our first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a

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

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for several thousand years but is exiled for his predictions by the sitting

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  soft-spoken. Be docile. I did this every weekend for the first 17 years ... woke up the next day and laid in bed for 15 minutes, feeling sparkly. I ... vindication I felt, being able to root for her, was strangely freeing. I wonder

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  is true no matter how you drew the vectors you picked for your zonotope ... something similar for each vector, giving us this picture: So the tiles with ... , and that’s something I’ll leave for you to think about. Let’s draw all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  whose papers I read for class and whose writing and clean, minimalist ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my ... bothering it and I wonder what it’s been up to and whom it is working for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id ... curves are generated from them. Joey, who built up this project for a ... because he's been with this project for a year, and I'd alternate between

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... . Colors are really the best approximation I have for what’s happening

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022