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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…

  

  , and how they arise in development--as well as looking for other special ... - they also learn how to understand, critique, and design brain imaging ... meritocracy. At MIT no one cares what you look like, how you dress (to put it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  , and there's even an iphone app, which is super useful for tracking all ... back to me). Anyway, at this point, there is really no place for the ... wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody else: go to MIT for reward of hot shower. 10:50 AM: Walk back to Next

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... - it doesn’t actually reveal how to accomplish anything you want, but rather explains how to avoid unnecessary suffering and how to protect your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  ." Unfortunately, since we were too lazy to wait another 35 seconds for the light to ... two-and-a-half part a capella version as we marched somewhat jauntily to ... , you want us to dance? I'm down with that. But it's kind of hard for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  exactly how you're going to celebrate. Lunch or dinner with friends is a ... straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however ... that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  MIT Tracking; the deadline for ECs to submit their reports has not yet arrived ... information for us to match the document with your file). Please include the ... will be fine, too, as long as there is enough information for us to match

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  building games. I remember how red my face became after I choose to perform a ... developed an exaggerated comical skit to showcase how to not interview. The ... how to relate and communicate about topics completely foreign to me. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are ... , you're the one I would expect to know how." This is one of the highest ... your stuff!! Nothing happened to us, but I just noticed how busy and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  few hours before Operation: MacNCheese commenced, I was advised to add a little mustard in with the cheese. Now, my recipe called for nutmeg to be ... resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  's not 10:30 AM; it's 10:28 AM. We didn't invent clocks for you to be wrong ... class might have been cancelled." After waiting for her emails to load on ... we part ways. I head over to the Forbes Family Cafe for lunch, where I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this ... think of it as an invitation. For some, it will be an invitation to see how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... 't enough concept questions asked, which are used both for attendance and to ... 't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... science and engineering organizations, waiting for Rep. Holt to give a ... (Sean) and thank him for giving such a helpful presentation at the AAAS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  casinos from Vegas to Monte Carlo for millions... but risking his life in ... movies or want to learn how to beat the casinos, then, um, MIT is your ... On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... the former to the latter, since I become increasingly aware of how lame ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  would be started to float around. How many students would be allowed back ... for us to read. I still haven't got around to reading about the storage ... that, we're required to quarantine for a week - like, serious quarantine

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  to be the Mexican version of Chuck Norris. This was admittedly a long ... ?   4. Does a snowman need to have 3 snowball parts for it to be a real ... campus. For some of the puzzles, the first challenge is trying to figure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015