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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  methods (of communication theory or control theory, for example) to aid in ... ? Consider the stories of Phil '05 and Laura '06. Phil '05 (who got his ... he strongly encourages you to check out a complete listing of all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  ), Communications Manager, Admissions 2) Daniel Barkowitz, Director Of Financial Aid 3 ... of Recruitment Green Circles - Objects: 1) Matt's paper bag, which contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New Zealand, this happened as well; they took away roughly 30% of my paycheck ... have been invested into an index fund three years ago, or maybe I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  oftentimes contained both a method of obtaining a series of numbers and also a ... discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... sorts of time consuming stuff). So, without further delay -- Puzzle

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  . So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away ... of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... , already sleeping across from me. Some weeks, it got kind of hot, but we had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  similar method can be used for other senses, eg. peoples’ sense of balance ... classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... limits of what i thought was possible with present-day technology. in this

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  polytrope of index 3, by coding a 4th order Runge-Kutta method; if that sounds ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... quantum physics and thermodynamics. Three of my professors have Wikipedia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But do they really help?" Actually, some tests at MIT go beyond index

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  Human Emotions (92k words). The bulk of the book is an alphabetical index ... . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I ... read it! Across the brown wrinkled forehead he drew a streak of white and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  + Index Cards This system goes on top of the Gcal + Todoist system—I make a ... up some of the 2000+ index cards that I inexplicably have, and it ... 've been time-tracking on and off since 2019 as a method of keeping tabs on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  -prone. The two preexisting classification methods have accuracy ranges of 60 ... . The traditional method of cleaning up these mats involves a mop, a bucket and a lot of time. The method Blue Team came up with? San-X: “The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... discussed just that kind of research from MIT. The first article, about ... occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Latin text, in case this is actually the correct method of opening the ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to fulfill this requirement by the end of your sophomore year. (Mitra note

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  at exploring different methods of solar cell characterization and detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  to as Infinite 1, and every floor of the Infinite above that is indexed ... in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020