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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on ... this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... . INCAPABLE. DEPENDENT. Got a low score on a test that I knew I could’ve done

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... Optimization), and 15.276 (Communicating with Data). I have come a long way ... campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It ... straightforward structure: the interviewers, current Google engineers, would spend a ... . The apartment hunt was quite frustrating--although Google helped out a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads Jennifer Sim and Di Ye have organized: Introducing a great opportunity for ... Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists ... the Human - a totally different beast with a whole different set of ... questions regarding how a society is, fueled by familiar scientific practices

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  2 Kittens from mysterious origins came into my life about a month ago. They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken laundry hamper mashed onto the cushions of a green car. (Is “green” somewhat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  2010. If there's one in your area, you should check it out -- it's a ... students and alumni. Here are a few highlighted events this coming week; see your MyMIT portal for the locations and times for these events, and for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  class were given cups of insanely yellow soda with a consent form and a ... ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the semester! the final was for 14.64 (labor economics), a class i ... --this class did a great job of highlighting the real-world implications of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  postpone taking. Also the class that gave me a new friend and a renewed ... like the rest of us. Gun control: the subject of a blog post I really ... : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... . Casa Verdi, known by its full name Casa di Riposo per Musicisti

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  ) opportunities as some more intense D-I programs are. I am a brother in a ... spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and ... playing a sport (or two) here and what type of adjustments being a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/1O9E3WsDI2LG8jTO0m3plM?si=22f3a772e32e477b Bone Apple Teeth!   ... [annotation note="I'm sorry, y'all, I got a little carried away. This is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by ... no groups, no photos, no news feed, just a profile photo and a comment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back ... . My phone, however, is a different story. The problem with the phone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023