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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  . However, the grounding effect and physical contact of certain animals often ... concept, as Luke explains that universities like MIT, Stanford and Carnegie ... (typically a young adult over sixteen) already feels drained, the physical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test ... chemistry, physics, and English in four and a half hours. (oh, and write two ... colleges - but MIT's is very unique!), is one of the many reasons why I love

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... while I may be leaving MIT physically, I'll never leave MIT - it's too ... , keeping tabs, making sure you're getting the most out of your college

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007 ... years of female college juniors with leadership, community involvement ... physics professor, WNBA basketball player, secretary of state, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... intramural sports and physical education program. Q. Doesn't MIT have a really ... time I checked, college was about learning, not foliage. Q. You guys are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  drive to be accepted at a good college or university made him too hard on ... universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  that abound at MIT. In the classroom: 8.21 - Physics ... actually works. From a physics standpoint, the course material ranges from a ... thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics. But the class also covers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  math and science international olympiads, in math, chemistry, physics ... seniors/rising college freshmen. And of those 13 seniors, 10 are in the MIT ... Christiano '12, Math: Silver Rui Hu '12, Physics: Silver Shaunak Kishore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  pleasant sort-of surprise. I also get credit for 8.01 (Physics I) because of my AP Physics C scores. So all in all, I was very happy to see my ... exposure to physics with calculus in high school.") So if you've been paying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  Sheng Ler Mei. The show is targeted towards college students, and basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... physics and math my friends are doing and my head plays radio noise -- a ... high school. Where I struggled with math and physics, I thrived with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  – it’s a difficult adjustment to the college lifestyle, with the food ... me. College, man! Expectation: MIT doesn’t get hard until classes ... does physics AP credit kind of strangely. You can get credit for 8

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  's Universe (although he's been asking for it back. Not that I wanted it in the ... because they violate all sorts of physical laws when they fall into black ... , grading for the class that convinced me to major in Physics a year ago, not

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  my AP classes: Senior year I took AP Physics C (calc-based) and AP Calc ... 's move on please.) The first day of physics was spent reveiwing derivatives ... 's, double 5's on the AP (Physics C is actually two tests: Mechanics and E

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  , your girlfriend exists (lol), and you walked into your AP Physics test ... like 2 sec. I have visited schools that were physically more beautiful ... don’t exist). But in all seriousness out of all of the colleges I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  's going on? At CollegeWeek Live! you all can participate in a real-time, 2 day college fair. Actual living, breathing college representatives are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  physics. The main trend I have noticed is that math in college is much more ... college math classes require a lot more mental legwork than my high school ... : I think I came into college with the expectation that my classes would

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... of MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics, and asked her to do some physics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  !), and that's 7.012 for ya. 8.01 - Physics: Mechanics, 12 credits, GIR for Physics With nearly 600 students in the course (but split across seven ... requirements. If you haven't taken Physics C and scored 5's on both sections (or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007