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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  question. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  summers to date. Computer security is something they touch upon a little bit ... hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 week introduction to the software security world. What that meant is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially ... , which is a pretty interdisciplinary major, I'm kind of an academic grab ... just to get in. *grin* My point here is, don't worry too much about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  math itself is a lot rockier, swinging between begrudging acceptance and ... ones. If you think about it, math is how you get your WALL-E's, your HAL ... proofs before, so even if I understand what a certain proof technique is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  ; Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just ... It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  Like literally how have i never lost a flight I'm[/visually_hidden] This is how it always goes for me. Something about a “young lady” in the ... ” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  realize just how much more there is for me to learn in order to truly be ... ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before ... i. before MIT The truth is, my scientific "career" started a while

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  isn't really a fair trade, is it?..) Ella ponders: I read what you ... help me? Right now I am in the 8th grade. And what exactly is a problem ... is kind of hard, especially in high school, because a lot of the time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... judge the impact of a speaker is through the audience reaction, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is ... , and then we have to teach people how it is that you take raw ignorance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no ... -fi plots and RPG-inspired tasks that is undoubtedly much cooler than it ... was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the ... this is what a puzzle could be like: at first, it might seem like a ... there's a good visual example of something like this. maybe the closest is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  people for my whole sophomore year. when i remember how much i respected ... -person as a non-junior is causing a bit of a resurgence. somehow, the more ... 'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... program is UROP. When you do a UROP, you will find a professor who is
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , this is a tough one. 1) Be pretty much the coolest person ever. If that ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... a long time + great friends = pretty much the best night ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  me inside the two radomes (yes, that giant sphere is a thing you can ... . In the future, the Radio Society is hoping to develop a couple really interesting projects based around ADS-B. One is actually a machine learning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his ... efforts will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is ... itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  once told me that the reason some new grads party so much is because they ... loneliness is and how hard community-building is and how transformative it can ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . It is what it is. You’ll also spot a sticker that pretty much sums me ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013