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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more ... is debuting something else, something new. They've created a search ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... , a baking sheet covered in aluminum foil is serviceable. Alicia '06 ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer ... -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... pretty-like (in color!). Before you look at that though, let's do a quick ... so we can use conservation of energy. Everything in orange is energy

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my ... last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an ... , lastly (3) I feel like Christina's site is a pretty good representation of ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go ... . Apparently their outfits were the subject of quite the debate-this is in direct

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What programs fall under the School of Architecture & Planning?

  was the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and technology. Through recognition of architecture as a liberal discipline, the department has long contributed to learning in the arts and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  went in it, but additionally learned a lot about the process of economics ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for ... gibberish, but it's still impressive-looking. Below is a non

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting ... through a phone camera. In that case, the Moiré pattern comes from the fact

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer ... .Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  's not a priority. The only thing is that it's only offered in the fall, so ... that this class is exactly the same as a class in a different major ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... . And there is one really, really cool thing you can do on chalkboards

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  application component, such as a transcript or teacher evaluation, now is a good ... application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  for a new show for high school kids. We were too old :-( In the ... . PS. Points to who can get the pop culture reference in the title. PPS ... During the warmer months, every Friday and Saturday, Haymarket, a

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... world is a double-edged sword. You get to be around some of the most brilliant and inspiring people and the sweetest research, but you’re also in a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap