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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... binary relations are. It’s the way that our computers can interpret what we are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  play a varsity sport. *sigh* Sometimes they expect you to have it all ... college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... just can’t turn down a good opportunity to learn (and have fun!) So

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... threekiness (it's hard to put into words)." - Janhavi Unlike other dorms, who ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So ... experience leads to a smaller proportion of the time it took to gain that ... song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden Mac

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to ... the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a ... new, but I just don't think it was the right thing for me to do in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  college applications, but I looked at it as an opportunity to get to know ... wasn't educational, it just had nothing to do with learning about who I ... directions—it wasn't easy. I remember coming to school that Thursday. No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  struggled with falling asleep, but once I was out, it was hard to wake me. I ... my best to ignore it. The second time was at 6 AM or so, around Toledo ... Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... knowledge the only History student — many people took it to fill the H of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to class, went to soccer practice, went home, watched cartoons, then went to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  ”. It can’t be that bad right? WRONG. My pride as an Asian with spice ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to capsaicin (the spicy chemical), making it much more effective than water to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... can see, there is a biker on this route right now - Google Street View ... front of me, and I'm going to hit it.     I tried to brake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... with the background; I would never have imagined it to be bright, Barbie ... those instruments were originally used for hunting and made to mimic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  myself for it. This isn’t going to go away soon, and all I can do is keep ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically, it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my ... involved using the WiiMote to control robots. http://www.iearobotics.com

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I ... at writing something, and the deadline is so close I can feel its

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  know that it can be a lot of pressure for some students to have to “out ... country has had so much progress when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community. At ... to know why we are asking about their gender identity and if it will be

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  to believe in something, taking a positive perspective on it can ... ) and it still doesn't feel like I quite have the grip on how to navigate ... . Don't waste time trying to prove to yourself that you can finish a PSET

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... general, the GEM is better than other detectors because it is safer to use ... may be used in future models. GEMs are able to detect particles using

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... character, Billy." No biggie. It's okay to perform in a musical and sing a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012