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• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  abstract. If I were to major in any of those fields, I couldn’t see what I ... took some time trying to deduce what fields of engineering rocked my boat ... E, which added to my confusion about the field most likely. For MechE, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ...   1:33 am: this paper tells me cells have “up to 10 ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , bread. (2) Forget to add mayo. (3) Hike 10 miles through snow, over ice ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70 ... from Anna’s. It’s good to be back. Anyways, it’s IAP (Independent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... denotes we were too poor to have any more than one bag of chips. Most

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  to calculate the thermal convection coefficient in turbulent regimes ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT ... sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen ... rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ambitious, have goals and dreams, and are willing to commit to making those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then ... lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... Pod shuffle, and since she already owns an iPod, she decided to bestow it upon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  class time at the end of the semester to just chat about her field. I can ... The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to the A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie concert near Lumen Field. I've been ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... ways a video, and you don't get to see still images all too often. Unless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  definitely a calculation you should make before bringing everything you own to ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  grades, and calculate whether I might be able to scrape a passing grade in ... .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... Folkers' paragraph that begins "I started to paint again." Without further ado, here are Folkers' words: MIT is just another place Prior to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... I had the chance to go to the game. We started off by visiting the ... . (Disclaimer: These photos are in no way intended to discourage you from applying

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  back hurts. Attempt to go back to sleep. 9:32 AM: Attempt to go back to ... miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z ... note to get those wheelie shoes prepubescent boys wear. 10:00 AM: Stand

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006