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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such ... on fourier transforms and sound waves. I was a little tired since I

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet ... that is starting to change. Shhhh, listen! Put your ear to your favorite

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  per semester, leading to more than one wave of midterm weeks. how you ... crosswalk on the way to the football field.  Despite this, for the first few ... I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  's reputation, and for MIT to do so would send shock waves through the field ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... amazing thing for me and calculated whether my job is net joy or net sorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  unaffected son? … an unaffected daughter? (c) Use Bayes' theorem to calculate ... prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  , and reading her field notes of my hall causes me to smile. as two east ... of the week is still quite busy for me, so i will have to stop my field ... always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  experiment was set up, we were actually able to use our data fits to calculate ... to learn that experimental physics is such an interesting field as it ... rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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