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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  whole point of the Thevenin/Norton thing is making the assumption that ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of 2011) are also the first year in which a 5 on AP Biology is no ... Insane (and it really is crazy...I came here kind of skeptical about the difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... insignificant. (Even dust-speck-in-the-grand-scheme-of-time-and ... , the walls of my room and B-Entry in MacGregor have many nice things. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge ... , Electrical, and Aerodynamics/Composites. I’m in the latter of these, where I ... opened the sketch portion of SolidWorks and I tried to make a rectangle

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  of the First Year, they have free snacks and gumballs. I haven ... I go to them every day, but some of the further away buildings and ... freshman year, the first one jointly being in Course 15 (Management) and 22

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  test. I anxiously waited and took the swim test, and of course I failed ... out of the pool and my legs were literally shaking. Y’all, swimming is hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  , Eric Klopfer, and Margery Resnick. One of the big appeals of the party ... Skier and Barbara Baker). And any party with 5 of the bloggers there must ... [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  commits the crime (murder) within the first 10 pages, and then spends the ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... and stay clear of the clutches of procrastination.  Well… I did start

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... sunset shuddered and from the sky came several drops of rain. One landed on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... phases of reason and tolerance, and this is just a blip in the movement ... the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... close to the waves that time) and sand all between its pages. Aside from ... for the Milky Way, and use that information to map out some of its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  surfaces and stuff. So I love the first layer of abstraction that comes with ... the TEAL structure of the 8.01 (Classical Mechanics) and 8 ... of the transcription for clarity and/or space saving Introductions

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and ... personal though sometimes hints of my life find their way in. And if the past ... published the day of graduation, and maybe one or two process blogs on a few

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  , and needless to sasy the project wasn't all about typesetting some equations in Latex. 20 pages of chicken scratch later and a solid 1.5 weeks ... the design project seriously, and thought that it'd be just plugging

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  the first kind of “special surprise” I was hoping for. For context ... collaborated plenty of times with MIT MTA over the past few decades and is ... During the first MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) rehearsal this semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  small wins early. Instead of the whole nuclear reactor, is there a ... that cost is low, and cycle time is fast. The secret of software ... right off the bat.  For example, take Tesla and its goal of creating a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about ... started writing my blog for the MIT Admissions website. A lot of the blogs ... industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is ... Monkeyluv last week, and I am currently in the middle of a book I've been meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... scene is awesome too. Everyone was really nice and only about 10% of the ... Boston twice (well, one of the times I just walked across the bridge and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  . When you get your decisions it could be that the last thing you'd ever want to do is sit still and go online (at least it was for me) but if that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008