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• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I reset my password?

  clicking, “Forgot your password?” You need the email address you used to create your account and date of birth. If you enter and submit these fields correctly, you will be sent an email with a temporary PIN that you will use to
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  ’s Kip Thorne to build the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ... gravitational wave research. I had a chance to sit at the same table as Dr. Weiss ... To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  by a truck constantly so people have to wave at me wherever I go ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses"]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

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

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  oh two two" Electric fields and charges: mystery Unknowable to me in ... pain To endless waves of p-sets, I submit Devoted to dear physics, I ... the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph.D. Two years later, she found herself working with four other people to ... thing, except we're dealing with light waves instead of sound waves. Noise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  (radio waves) probably have transmitted this blog to whatever device you ... founded on seemingly-invisible waves that we’ve learned to detect, create ... my return to MIT after taking leave this past fall. I’ve been thinking

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We're going to take these corn cobs and corn husks and this briquette press

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... wave hits a difficult spot, knowing the people you live and learn with is ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Colombia used a combination of genetics and almost a decade of field work to ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west ... enough to hold all 300+ dorm residents I have used it for Apple Bake

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . After I get comfy, I use sleepyti.me to calculate when I should wake up so ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to track my sleep. It calculates my sleep quality by recording me through the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  started and ended with the Net Price Calculator (a nice tool to remind you ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016