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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest ... stupider. The lectures are a lot of fun while generally the recitations are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an ... think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance ... Pot, on Pier 57. The cool half of the group got a meal that requires the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend ... , and even more debauchery than that of its forebearers. Throughout the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general ... sleeping lots blogging :) Blog entries I want to write: recap of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... additional lectures The World’s Numerical Recipe, The Origins of Mass and the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... , Boston Marathon! Speaking of which...Last year, I watched the marathon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application ... about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. Although you may ... member of our community the ability and passion to work collaboratively for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... out curiosity, how does one join RingComm? Towards the end of your ... determine the members of RingComm. Elizabeth asked: Stupid question: I hear

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... 's fantastic). The kicker is classes for the rest of the world start first week in March, and ours have been going since the beginning of February, so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  'm writing this post right now is the traditional, unceded territory of the wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION: In Germany, the energy content of ... , for the low, low price of 1,50 euro per hour. However, the upper room ... divulging trade secrets. Also, I can't really read most of the error messages

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006