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• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  reasonable to do something related to one's field or just go out into the woods ... telescope about every half hour/hour to make sure it is always in the field of ... field camp), which is an observational astronomy lab intensive class that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  communication common to the field's professional and academic culture". In other ... do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated ... managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and won $15

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  , which is a measure of sentiment ranging from -1 to 1 calculated by taking ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to read and pronounce Middle English, writing pieces on radio astronomy for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace ... layperson is doing a great service not only to your specific field, but to all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... :58 AM* "AH CRAPPPP. NOT AGAIN!" *throws TI-89 calculator into pocket and ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes ... , administrators say. The felines add a warm touch to a high-pressure environment of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  yawned wider by the day. In every field I turned to, the same question ... another PhD student waved us goodbye as I stepped into the bus back to the ... , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... can't see radio waves! Nowadays, astronomers apply for "observing time ... facilities are open to anybody, and some only open to certain communities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  anyone directly saying that women were inferior to men and immediately got a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  To manufacture the silicon chips that run your computer, silicon ... engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems ... to mathematical approximations -- which were developed by applying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  all. HOW THE HECK DO YOU CALCULATE THE MAXIMUM DOPPLER SHIFT POSSIBLE TO ... post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember ... . from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  and try to visit as many regions as possible to deliver presentations about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  from calculating electric/magnetic fields of simple particles, and then advancing on to calculating electric/magnetic fields - and finally applying ... 't visualize, fields that I can't perceive. When I left high school, I vowed to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008