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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  some upper classmen to take whatever credit I could and run with it, so I did. So far I'm very happy with that decision, but it remains to be seen ... calculus you need to know for that class is integration by parts. Sure, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  $. I.e., can you use integration (as opposed to discrete sums) to get rid ... proof! I can write it down completely from beginning to end. I can explain ... irks me about a proof. I can write it down from start to finish. Examine

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  can exploit to make higher and higher temperature superconductors. At ... current flowing through it. If non-superconducting material were used, it ... as it turns out is the perfect place to build top secret atomic weapons

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind ... phone useful or necessary so he didn't see the need to own one "I got

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... brewing through the very air pockets of MIT, and I was able to breathe it in ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I ... [annotation note="I used Google sheets to record data and Python (numpy, pandas ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  people can testify to that. East Campus culture is very heavy on ... off and it took literally forever. My roommate (Anto M. ‘21) happens to ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  home, if you chose to use toilet paper rather than a bidet, you threw it ... to think of it, I can’t really distinguish much between Philippine ... steps down. It does mean that you can cross the road anytime you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  can't very well write about something I don't have access to. So I thought up a lie, and I thought it up quick. I walked over to the ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

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

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  new paths. It’s horrifying sometimes to think how much knowledge there ... four academic years. I am grateful to MIT because it has shown me those ... . Knowing little has driven me to know more. The best I can do now is take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  , this is it, just watch, you'll see it happen." Sure enough, the lady to ... . We then proceeded to just spew all math onto it. When we started we had ... that it's impossible to study without getting distracted. When you've got

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  age it’s much more common to find people who can text on their phone without looking at the keyboard than it is to find people who can type on ... ’t supposed to use any punctuation or line breaks and we were also supposed to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... :33 pm: I really, really need to cough again. Anyway, because it's summer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  much as I can to make it easier for myself in future [annotation note ... extensions on it. Note to self: Extensions are good. I saw a hawk on the way to ... professor and writing advisor for CMS.100, and I want to use their advice to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  will use its results—to me that’s the real work: real not as in physical ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... they return to spawn. This is very time- and labor-intensive, and it

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  with it yet, but my roommates and I may try to use Simmons money to buy a ... time I try to write it I get sad and miss home and put it off ‘til later ... tools to disassemble the duck, but overall it was very fun…until we had to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  about it. Then I had another plan for this blog post: I was going to build ... months later, it turns out that, well, it's difficult to build extremely ... instead I just used an[annotation note="An electric spinning tool to which

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  many months. I figure that it might be insightful to those of you faced ... to make.   March to June I'll admit it - when we first got ... bad history of actually listening to its students. I do recall filling

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020