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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  appears EXACTLY once a second, and we've marked up the paper into second ... - and see whether I've found a pulsar. This is the kind of plot I look at ... . The whole column is the "sum" of all those slices of paper - we've

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  math for math's sake, I've found 18.02 has swayed me to the course 18 ... essays and what it is I consistently do wrong. To top it all off, I've ... development in third world countries. While I've currently dropped the seminar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... hippy, and the two families are rivaling business empires. Now that we’ve ... -oh wait, who’s that hot chick? I’ve never met this Juliet girl before but I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  It's unfair, I admit: I've rhapsodized aplenty about Manhattan's food ... , and you've got the perfect date. Fine, you can get the three ... vegetable that I've ever witnessed. Black Sheep takes the humble potato and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  drug dealers, and the antics that ensue. What I've seen and read of the ... , at 13,800 feet. That's 4200 meters. You've already calculated, I know ... with some coolio research (but I've got to keep the actual project mum

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  information session, waiting to here all about two schools I've never been to ... I've attended, I guess because I'm no longer exploring schools, but it's been a long time since I've gone through the admissions process so I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  ," "computer science," or "physics." If you know anything about MIT, you've ... charge of 2A that the electives they've chosen contribute to a cohesive ... glad I did. Because of the flexibility, so far I've been able to take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  he/she applied to? (I've gotten some pretty interesting responses from ... -minute lecture on all the finer points of your research (I've found that a ... make it into MIT because I've missed the interview deadline...) - don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  this summer, I've done six Western blots, two HEK cell transfections, twelve midipreps, and about five zillion other things -- I've been pretty busy. I've also, of course, moved into a sweet apartment, graduated from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  it, but I've definitely not studied for finals by playing game after ... music rooms for resident use. I'm not remotely musical, so I've never been ... sense of style. I've chosen some pictures to show off some of my favorite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could've ... point? you should've just stopped bothering. failed the first time, more ... . cj: nightmares, alone, i could've handled. i mean, i dealt with those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found ... for a couple years. I've realized that while computer science is fun and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  first. She said something like, “Hey, you’ve got to apply. You’ve just got ... we, in fact, exist. Christian: I’ve been able to successfully convince ... ?"]every single little thing you’ve never wanted to know about South Dakota

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to ... Tech isn't too far down the list, I've noticed that a lot of applicants ... problems I've seen since coming to America were regular AP Physics problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  Essay word limits? I think I've written essays which show me as an ... consider the opportunities and resources you've been given. Here are the ... hometown)? A finnish MIT student I've been emailing with told me he never had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  me want to go here, and the community I've found has been the most ... I have all stem from the community I've found, the community ... , both before and after the release of Regressions, I've taken every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  a small portfolio of photographs I've taken. Should I submit an ... Alvin wrote, "Hi Matt, regarding research, you've answered part of my question before. But let's say the research that I've done isn't original

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  microcelebrity of your dreams. Meta, I know. For some background, I’ve barely ... also get good clarifications on the ideas because you’ve put your ... things, and things expand to fill the time you give it. I’ve been doing

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  physics -- just do that.’ So, I've been here a long time,” Peter said. Peter ... programming in the context of his other two passions. “So I've written code for ... then asked both lecturers what career they think they would’ve pursued in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... good way). It’s one of the reasons why I’ve written so many blog posts ... numbers can be biased, but they've been mostly reliable in my experience

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025