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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  explorations of the first two volumes, maintaining its emphasis on methods of ... thinking in biomechanics in thei increasingly complex interdisciplinary ... flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  tiny window (this one) and one larger window facing east, which let in a ... student center (the light brown building in the distance), and extremely close to the chapel (currently under construction). In fact, Maseeh is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  classes up in 100 words or less: 5.111 - Principles of Chemical ... sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... in Brain Science: If you've ever believed that neuroscientific findings

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... preferences of the royalty. Each group came up with their own method, some ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  in the large washer. Chocolate and peanuts and granola make me groan ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time ... unclear. The time-proven procrastination methods concisely entitled “Social

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas ... family of four. In Bambi times, animals feared humans. Now the mama deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  abandoned it in favor of Google Keep as soon as I realized how many things I ... Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM ... , especially in the early rays of daybreak, when the sun strikes my solar ... hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  , as the four methods have only become popular in the past ten years or ... academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... classes and methods, -- different classes and complexity of algorithms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... design in the form of a GoogleDoc while we were in the process of ... basically a crash course in being a leader in the engineering workplace over a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  anything attention-demanding the next day and can can crash sometime early in ... pset - I found myself lying in bed awake at 4 a.m. And then 5 a.m., 6, 7, until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually modeled after a legendary MIT class in mechanical engineering, 2.007, which Woodie started teaching at MIT in the early 1970s. For decades, 2.007 has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not ... sight and tendency to zone out. Don’t ask for clarification in an argument; that’s a sign of weakness that will immediately result in losing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to ... to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... organizational method works for you. Oh, and did I mention it's also about having

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... materials and methods section -- explaining all the experiments I've done and ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a ... always loved math is probably working in my favour as well! During ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017