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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and ... complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine ... have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... liked to put sugar in it, and my mother drank it like soup, with layou and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore ... what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close ... that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  ://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to ... Solve Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: University Working To End Conflict In ... country to participate in its "Just Jerusalem" competition. The contest aims

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... "every government dollar invested in energy R&D returns 40-fold to the ... 40-to-1 return on investment." In the same way that President

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount ... ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  extra socks (it's just starting to get extra freezing here in New England ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... Oberlin, so I moved to Ohio and, well, nobody in Boston ever heard from me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  [/caption] I'm falling behind in this fall semester, and running hard to try and get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit ... , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his ... Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... motivate me to actually watch the lectures in a timely fashion and come up ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  safekeeping upon arrival. (In theory, MIT returns your time to you upon ... just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... for both, to maximise my chances of getting into one of them; these

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  .03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate ... in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... to take part in C-Show last year. I did this year though! This year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a ... to rage, and in a place where most students are only here for four ... point in the semester where I transition to being more excited about my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the ... , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  , I’ll just have to see how it goes ☺ In any case – I wish you all a ... of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... , regardless of how many questions I ask. Yesterday, I was given the chance to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  application was strong enough in terms of academic merit to get into the college ... passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions ... applications (while wondering why in the world my interviewer hasn't bothered to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  [/annotation]raved over the aurora: Professor "Sorry to bother folks, but given how many ... lucky to live in a city that had 24/7-accessible rental cars. We were lucky to live in an area where the aurora was visible. And, we were lucky

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  planned for later in the year! Hmmm, I think I'm going to need a bigger ... lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my Mac

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010