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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  have used a calculator to convert the times, by multiplying the decimal ... Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  calculation as well as an airflow calculation to show that it was possible to ... Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  to keep out the wind and rain but be permeable to radio waves. They ... points, and using that to calculate the velocity of the matter (star, etc ...  off the airplane. This would require being able to accurately calculate the plane

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... resistance and thus being able to maintain a current without a voltage. The only problem with these awesome devices is that they require you to cool

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

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst ... . Each step they took was purposeful, calculated, as they walked and walked to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  happened to calculate the radii of the stars and one day a fellow astronomer ... observatory through the MIT Astronomy Field Camp. She encourages MIT students to ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And the Lottery Says…..

  

  Burton Conner. Hi Mitra and Sam! *waves* Just felt like sharing. Right now I'm off to go shopping for random dorm room things, so more later.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  calculation— “net present value”—has come to guide modern thinking about the ... ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  . Your score, which you aim to maximize, is calculated as (the number of ... .972. My score was calculated as: 26 hiders at Briggs Field - (0.999 * 28 ... Briggs Field worked out alright – a substantial number of people chose to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66 Management students to 9 different countries to intern in companies such as ... from field observations will be crucial for my own future research

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  drive from my house. In fifth grade my parents and I were driving to my ... a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  waves traveled through the wires to create mechanical waves in the speaker ... compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves ... open to future experimenters. The applications to the field of cancer

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  are waves. Similarly, you can use the restaurant analogy to see why I ... magnetic fields” to “pigeons can smell the way home”. Although these theories ... fields, thanks to some special proteins in their eyes called "cryptochromes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  demonstration going throughout the event along with projects to build a mini-wave ... than 130,000 ft2 of build/hobby space, about 2.5 football fields, to ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody, but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -step calculation: . The latter formula is easier to understand and much more ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... has to be 10 ft long, with a 2 ft wide deck and 2-3 ft clearance above

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  and group velocity. Optics; wave solutions to Maxwell's equations ... fields. Brief introduction to Newtonian cosmology. Introduction to some ... -dependent electromagnetic fields and Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic waves, emission

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009