Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  of the European System: Scientific Method: European universities appropriated the modern scientific method. Unity of Research and Teaching ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  index, Birth of a Nation would have made over $336 million dollars. This ... to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  Frozen.  Using this method, we thought we could create some sort of ... supervisor already had an example implementation of the Material Point Method ... At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove ... . You start to develop new methods of moving around your house, as normal ... noticed that at second class squalor, you start to develop new methods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  method of not-going-at-25-mph-anymore requires performance of “the s ... syllables of your preferred interjection/expletive pairing. My stomach ... the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  standardized. All the dorms have different internal methods of rooming and ... Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... lot of questions about how choosing dorms, floors, rooms, and roommates

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  methodical. But there's no denying it. The wide eyes of childhood met the ... French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  the layout of a file depends on its index. That's why the new file was in the wrong place: it was in the place of the old file at that index ... was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... had my seventh day of school. In many ways, med school is like going back to high school - the days are much longer with an intense amount of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... curtain of things I’d long been curious about, and somehow getting paid

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Satrapi mixed explanations of her artistic process with nuggets of advice about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in front of a chalkboard, with a drawing of his or her choice. A spectacled

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  method of delivery will be guaranteed to preserve edibility, somehow ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100 ... sentences without the crutches of LaTeX syntax and an average math density of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and ... Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  /cabinet/shelf (or whatever method of food storage you might use) and concoct a meat ... proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  novel method for optimization of arrangements. We also discuss its quantum nature and applications in the field of cancer research. Methods and ... Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011