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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  use a variety of tools to help me, from Evernote for keeping track of ideas to Google Docs when I collaborate with someone else. Last week I ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  sense of these tragic events, it is all too appealing – and unhelpful – to resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of ... and much other research that each year about 10 to 15 percent of college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  single handedly fuelled a generation of STEM majors. As a kid who went to a ... teleportation is used to send bits of data. In a world where the speed of light is ... interesting way of sidestepping the current issues. Google Believes Everyone

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the ... to indent the condition of my else command." So there. And now, for ... 'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  -selective motion detector neruons of flies, and learn how to do data analysis. There ... system." You get to look at lots of optical illusions and learn why our ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to ... in, about what kind of company culture I like (hint: Google is awesome ... with that beanie. I kind of want the weather to get colder just so I can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... the beginning of the year, so it's perfectly feasible to get an ... the City of Boston has to offer). This short route is shown below

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  , I’m also now embarking on the project of redesigning our website to ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer ... Freewebs to built my first website using their drag-and-drop website builder

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind ... constraints of school and homework. Most summers of high school, I worked to ... . There are lots of productive ways to utilize this gift of uninterupted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid ... given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build ... entry is to let you know about the live webcast of the competition. It

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we ... section of the current (soon to be "old") apply section on MITadmissions ... search to quickly search all of the pages and/or filter them by type of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  of notes to self. And with that, I will try to get those 7 hours of ... 's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  Here at MIT, with our large population of international and immigrant students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  results in an additional flood of people sending the word “unsubscribe” to thousands of people, sometimes to the point where MIT’s email servers start ... eloquent. Quote: "this project hopes to provide to students who are tired of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  kinds of nanowires available to us, but there are very few tools to ... tweezers, which work using the forces of radiation pressure, where radiation ... Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  to grit my teeth and power through, forcing myself into a state of ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... haze of decision fatigue which has rendered me fully unable to formulate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  we wrote a lot of code to carry out force computations and physics ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of ... never return to where you were before of course, if your cart is bad

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  , I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the ... past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... out at the sea of faces and realized what a magical job it is to be the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009