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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... back to the early 1600s, way before Newton’s time. The birth of calculus ... Leibniz were simply interpreters of the subject to an algebraic form. Newton

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here ... practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... psetting, scribbling out mistakes, and trying to untangle the parts of my ... breaks aren’t just about the food of course. They are also a time to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  felt and continue to feel good about the exam. There was a calculation I ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... . We took a tour of the exhibition, then had some time to ourselves. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you ... later that you confront the reality of what it’s like to wrestle with a ... college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to ... ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  required to melt snow, using the latent heat and heat capacity of water ... bucks.  That's not including the cost of getting trained to use that gear ... volume of workshops and presentations was difficult to absorb - but on the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I ... ="109270" /] Afterwards, we walked to the Museum of Islamic Art Park, then caught a taxi in ... on the other side of the water. “That’s Saudi Arabia,” he said, to my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to ... opportunity (which turned out to be somewhere in the middle of broad and ... assist airflow enough to ease the comfort of the user while also using a

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

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the ... group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... with zippered pockets. Or make daily sacrifices to the frowning gods of ... counter-arguments to this, of course, like the value of having something

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered ... mention trying to contact someone out-of-the-blue; the anxiety was so

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... deactivated for the summer. In mid-August, one of my suitemates decided to try ... )"]different part of MacGregor[/annotation] where I was a lot closer to the laundry

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

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum ... the simple case of sorting 5, 9, 1, we had to use our comparator quite a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ‘12 and I were the only prefrosh to go on the tour of the dorm. It ... which I’d love to be a part of), to snap a picture. During the ... .. I laughed to the point of tears (I think you had to be there

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... you also obtain the skill of being able to critically navigate through ... myself. When I first came to college, my arrogance got the best of me. I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

   rice with forks? How are you going to scoop it into your mouth? The default of ... reusable set of utensils everywhere. The concept of layers is foreign to me ... cards. And even of the places that do, often, getting a card to work takes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  instruments and a detailed understanding of the CCD system will be key to ... figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... attraction to the latter types of projects, I really prefer to be a small part

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of ... . Our aim was to estimate the radius of the ping pong balls with the same ... that day, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the students walked out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... attention to the memes people make of him, so I encourage you to go out and be ... calculations to "find" Superman's home planet within the exoplanet catalogue, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014