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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor ... we struck the glass, it would ring with a frequency identical to that ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one ... our medical facility on campus.  Maybe you need a checkup, or to get a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Harry Potter fame) tried to kill the Great Dome with a curse, leaving a ... community went to Six Flags". You don't stop being a Child of Florey (another ... and whooping. It is a truly amazing ride - in addition to its impressive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its ... admitted to, MIT. I had briefly visited MIT during a previous trip to another ... very interesting jobs, I choose to take a job here in the MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... : one, a professional grey to match my shirt, and the other a neon yellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  . Students will use existing digital and traditional content to identify a scientific misconception, outline a lesson plan to address the misconception ... and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... overnight but it’s a great and free way to start learning (Duolingo please ... experience points (XP) for each lesson, with ~10XP corresponding to a normal 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  ; Just a GIR I put off til sophomore year because I wanted to take some ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  ? (...) As it turns out, this was a surprisingly difficult question to answer ... ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card ... specific variant. This way, I could easily check to see if 3 cards made a set

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... long long time ago I used my camera phone to take a picture of Katie? '10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... , as it can take a while to light up. Travel to the right down Mass Ave

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school, for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision ... team has worked incredibly hard this year to process a record number of ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... was even more alluring because the MSA invited Yasir Qadhi to present a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... jynnie, but a bunch of 2E alums are coming as well! i've never been to the UK -- i'll try to take lots of pictures. even though i'll be a little

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006