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  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of the semester, we were thrown into the darkroom. It might as well be a time-machine (film? what’s that?)….and…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I’ve been wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened!…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Last night, MIT Aero/Astro professor Missy Cummings was the guest on The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy’s first female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute… the other day I…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short version of her research? ...and here's the Mollie-cheerleader origin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh, one of the MIT students…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  , I'll also be doing a little research in MIT's Early Childhood Cognition Lab. One of the great things about doing research at the ECCL is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that are totally beyond me) and I’ve been having a great time in it. I’ve been writing lab reports,…

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  Hi!! I’ve been super busy over the past few weeks with various final projects and a writing portfolio and all that. Now I have no finals while almost everyone else…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie because I forgot to adjust for the President’s Day holiday, oh well) 21W.735: Writing and Reading the Essay.…

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  cutting-edge research topics just like any other researcher in the field ... their research (that is, if you can even understand the extent of their work), and accomplished faculty taking time away from their research to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don’t usually like to post these kind of “on-the-whim” entries (I’d write more, but I’m still finishing 2 psets), but I believe this is an important part of MIT…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  valuable one) is the one I gained through my research project as an ... answer that could be found after some amount of work. With research, the mental leap was a much longer one to make. Inherent in the word, research

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above) We will spend the majority of…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I’ve been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said,…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  I have tests in all my classes in the next few days so I thought it was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  Upon conferrring me my black belt, my sensei also handed me a ruler and said, “Go Forth and Measure.” I never thought my secret ninja skills would come in handy…

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I’m actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I’ll be…

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  laboratory work, research, or other science-related jobs, etc). Have you or ... asked: Question: How ample are research oppurtunities for those whose ... to find something. At MIT, there's research into everything. If you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006