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  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  (right) does not have. This dip is due to an oxygen-hydrogen bond ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure ... bearings and figure out how to use public transportation (the “T”). I started ... —I had four whole years to take advantage of things here, after all.) Not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  that if the set of real solutions to Ax = 0, x ≥ 1 is not empty, then it ... , not a single path, and you may or may not have gotten a chance to ... faces are required to be congruent. We are not going to require that any

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... the world, I guess. But it's not a weird thing to be a female scientist ... engineers at MIT, it's also not a weird thing to be a female engineer here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  approached. Not wanting to look like a complete weirdo taking pictures of a ... accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... cluster that's deliciously quiet and empty at this time of night

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  . There are several important reasons that bloggers may not feel safe to openly identify as LBGTQ+. Some may not be out to friends or family, some may have ... consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... -essays may not represent you in all your 1080p HD glory. 2. You don't need to use the essays to prove that you are accomplished. That's not the point

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... to help the waiting suck less? No, probably not. If you ask this, we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to ... university, for some reason or another, is not recognizing what you have to ... render judgment on you? You know what you have to offer. It’s not worth

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... exclusive to the 2+ people involved. This is not, for the most part ... do not want to be limited by exclusivity. Some people prefer to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to Zuko the importance of learning from other nations and shows him how ... waterbenders. The other part of this episode shows Toph teaching Aang how to ... not supposed to happen’. After the Zuko Alone episode, his mind

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or ... back-to-back classes do you have, and how far are they from each other ... , see e.g. How to (Im)properly Cross Register. Some considerations. Other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  down problems into sub-problems, how to not only use but understand the ... and how they are best teaching it. Not to mention, the content is very ... firsthand how it's not really possible to address every facet of a problem

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  , from Bruno Mars to Jennifer Lawrence to Lebron James to Ronda Rousey. 600 winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  team demonstrated how to strap the boots onto a horse—which of course ... , “How’s it glowing?” to resounding laughter. “We’re excited to introduce ... educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... not very legible but it’s cool that they’re there *should* earn the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... to work a random barista job that realistically will not contribute to ... is not guaranteed. UROP students have to submit an online application

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing ... to grad school. If you go, go because you want to, not just because you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018