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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  unbelievably hosing. This particular post, though, is about a particularly well ... , and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of ... that a course invented then [the 80's] is still so dead on in what

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  is only a twenty-minute endeavor. Ah, Paris. Pretty typical ... food. SNCF is the national railway of France, much like our Amtrak ... was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach ... Magnetism, for which I sought out a little help. The Edgerton Center is quite ... with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... be a tourist. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time. How I looked ... !   How many MIT students does it take to figure out a swing?  

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  number is 6.186 -- MASlab is a course 6 class, but it is also listed in ... lasts five minutes, which is an awfully short amount of time for a month ... quite a lot of progress, though -- the robot is almost entirely

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  incredibly vague about who is a terrorist. Anyone who speaks up is threatened. This, of course, is only one blow in a long and sustained campaign ... I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  dorms (keep in mind there is also a residence hall called East Campus, which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... East Campus denizens. So I've thought about this a lot. West Campus is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  social angst issues from years before, and is a wonderful storyteller, and ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... guys, let me know who you are!) Question: "How about how you made your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up ... foiled at the twelfth hour, the conspirators nonetheless secured a place in ... written to vilify them. To this very day, much of the United Kingdom

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  .  This "little" undergraduate research project netted him a cover article ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about how water-striding insects propel themselves on the water surface

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  , this is clearly a very US-centric program, since it delineates the US ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We ... an interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for ... Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  and 17. To win the P3, a project had to demonstrate how it would ... MIT student design project has won a People, Prosperity and Planet Award ... here Great job to Kendra, who "developed much of the project content

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  breaks. While equipment is important, Cote spends as much time helping ... Stealing a page from Melis's book, check out this awesome article about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... before hand. I'm as scheduled as I possibly can be (which is not a lot ... , sleep,) is a pretty big deal also. There have been many nights where I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... oscilloscope, it can detect, for example, whether a particle is an electron or a ... Treatment Service. Since CERN is a research facility and not a foil producing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  a dozen times over. How did they manage this? Through role ... character would. For example, let us say that your character is a middle-aged politician who is in New York City on a campaign tour when Godzilla attacks. As

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... high school. Man, the passage of time is a scary thing). ... So you got into MIT. Congratulations!! Today is December 13, which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion ... .60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a ... are.) Anyway, the point of all this is that I had a really good meeting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the ... .  My research group is working on a siRNA-based treatment of liver cancer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012