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  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore ... out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... declared Course 2! Woot! But enough about school... after all it is summer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... form of shin splints. I asked around for advice and got plenty: Stretch

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8.033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  4.113 - Applied Architecture Design Studio I, we have to code...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design ... alternative models of conflict(s) designed. My comments: It will finish my HASS ... couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  dynamic demonstration of mechanical design, systems integration, and ... and Design Final competition!!! This semester, MIT students have been ... ’t let you all miss out on the BEST PART!! The culmination of 2.007 is the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary ... the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new revolutionary technology being developed at MIT by the Self Treading Insole Design

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  science works). Economics wasn't offered at my school, but I decided to take ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... . But, through very valiant perseverance (and a lot of Youtube music

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

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... " align="aligncenter" width="800"] google doc from high school[/caption] It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  design in the form of a GoogleDoc while we were in the process of ... to each member of the team and set out to… Implement the Design We ... story) a reality. Here, a lot of this falls under designing the project

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  dad complains about the poor design decisions of the road, and you will ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025