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FAQ / Academics and research
Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?
new Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, the largest, most advanced U.S -
FAQ / Academics and research
What does the D-Lab do?
D-Lab is building a global network of innovators to design and disseminate technologies that meaningfully improve the lives of people living in poverty. The program’s mission is pursued through interdisciplinary courses -
FAQ / International applicants
Can you mail me materials internationally?
Due to increasing mail costs and in an effort to be environmentally-conscious, we no longer mail materials internationally, and we do very limited mailing within the U.S. You may however, sign up for our monthly newsletter -
Blog / Classes
[Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths
Read another post by Sharon here. That’s right, I’m talking ... lot more about Harvard’s various academic and social scenes. Some ... Company all in the same square? It’s hardly fair. There is a visible trend -
Blog / Academics & Research
February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus
Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two ... -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it’s ... external) screaming. Overall though, I’m super happy with my schedule! Here’s -
Blog / Life after MIT
One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?
resume — strictly speaking, she hasn’t actually been born yet. She’s my daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2 ... Fly”. (Let’s just say there’s a disagreement between me and her dad -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ode to PNR First semester in review
’d come back. I’ll pray, beg, get on my knees, if you think it’s gratitude I ... the hard way that it’s really not like high school. Surrounded by the weirdos and nerds; it’s no longer uncool. I joined anything and everything -
Blog / Academics & Research
THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"
. Last week’s morale went something like an inverse bell curve centered ... off. All present: May, you need some sleep. May: But my paper’s on The Lion King! All: May. SLEEP. You get the point. It’s been a little rough -
Blog / Academics & Research
LIFE! is my favorite entry title.
! It’s been over a month since I arrived @ MIT and naturally, I have processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in ... tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark
time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is ... long I’ve been doing each aforementioned action. It’s brainpower ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions -
Blog / Academics & Research
Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language
language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that ... binary relations are. It’s the way that our computers can interpret what we -
Blog / Events
And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.
closely related to the behavior of an elaborate function ζ(s) = 1 + 1/2s + 1/3s + 1/4s + ... called the Riemann Zeta function. The Riemann hypothesis asserts that all interesting solutions of the equation ζ(s) = 0 -
Blog / Academics & Research
spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit
because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... , but now that I’ve gotten used to it, I love it. It’s really, really ... thinking. We then discuss everyone’s questions in the next class. It’s a lot -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)
Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings ... . Again, it’s not beautiful. But I would argue that it’s something better -
Blog / Challenges
avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff
expected to feel refreshed, ready for a round three. But it’s not happening. I wouldn’t quite call it mental exhaustion. That’s already happened, and it’s gone now. It feels like my brain is constantly on pause, like -
Blog / Athletics
Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT
men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women’s -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora
learned about interfaces. Me: What are interfaces? Dora: It’s like an ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer ... which didn’t seem super important. So then I decided not to go because it’s -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)
spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart ... a small commercial animation studio that was there. So I’m like “that’s -
Blog / Academics & Research
they want to see you fail managing others' envy
. It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me—it’s like I’m claiming there’s something about me or what I have that is so