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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would ... It all started on Monday night. I had a big French III essay due

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... ’d be interested in becoming a content creator for OLW. Of course, I ... the graduate students in her lab, Beth Vogel, as a possible resource

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• 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 / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  experts in what being a student at MIT is really like because they ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... . It’s a snow angel! Like in the movies! I’d only ever seen snow angels ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think ... (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... doing so. The whole idea behind the blogs is to open a window into the ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• 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 / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  have a current blog, please send a link to it. If your blog is locked ... . Short Answer Essays Short answer #1 - In a paragraph or two, describe ... of the following). Option A: In a paragraph or two, describe to us a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few ... -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... minutes. But I never believed in linear time anyway. Since my life is a lot ... kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  experience is not a limiting factor. In particular, he tries to find students ... reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... all goes well, this bio-inspired adhesive will be found in a hospital

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  raised me. As my mom worked long hours in a city three hours away, a lot of ... faces and names. There is something cruel in watching one of your role ... remember me. It's always still a fear in my mind because I know that no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to ... chambers and filter bubbles. Wikipedia says:   A filter bubble is a result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  their business. Here is a tentative schedule of the event: Tuesday ... entrepreneurs and a VC representative and the audience. The idea is to get all the ... sounded like a great idea. I reply-all'd to Barry and Elizabeth, and this is

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... flasher in the grocery store. (Some days my life just is not normal ... together in the same room? We analyze the centripetal motion of a fan. The

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  improvement is that I am not crying in a bathroom, and I’m handling it. I got a ... Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  in the eggs?" The answer is simple: we do not have a rooster. There is ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• 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