<p>I'm just curious as to what prospective MIT students like researching, though many people do other things, which is cool too.</p>
<p>personally i like applied math stuff like making codes using number theory.</p>
<p>I love learning about almost all things technical/scientific/mathematical, but I have really picked up an interest for high-energy physics and string theory. This stuff is mind-blowing!</p>
<p>Rocket motors. Ignition systems plus the inner fuel tank concreteness.</p>
<p>Propulsion. Anything that gets us the hell out of LEO efficiently enough.</p>
<p>The effect of adrenergic agonists on memory consolidation of non-emotionally arousing tasks.</p>
<p>Rockets! Yay synchotron! Rockets in the sky! Propulsion! Yay kaizad! Aerospace here i come!</p>
<p>i did some in animal acoustics in a lab that specialize in otolaryngology.</p>
<p>Basically, Why the hell do some elderly people seem to age perfectly, avoid inflammatory phenotypes, and have less motility problems, even when screening for a plethora of variables (smoking, lifestyle stuff)? Lab I am a part of looked at genetics (SNPs etc.) and a specific signal transduction pathway for the answer.</p>
<p>haha, my grandpa is the perfect example. He's 84 and he can run, drive, and touch his toes. I should try studying his genes.</p>
<p>Anything on ALS that I could get my hands on. </p>
<p>Also, FFI and mad-cow. </p>
<p>I guess medical blows my mind.</p>
<p>I did quatum mechanics research. The title of my research paper was not as fancy as some of the others: Evaluation of Photon Tunneling Probabilty by spatial variation, I discovered that the massless nature of photons cause them to undergo quantum tunneling in a sinusoidal relationship to the width of the barrier they have to traverse, as opposed to the inverse relatioship demonstrated by particles that have mass.</p>
<p>Oh and observing lunar geology, chronology of impact/volcanic events etc.</p>
<p>I'm doing research on human-computer interaction. A lot of stuff with virtual environments and multiplayer online games, and how people act within them.</p>
<p>I'm doing research in quantum field theory and modeling. I hope to find a UROP in combinatorics, though.</p>
<p>I did a model which replicated the optical system of the human brain, applying fuzzy logic and neural networks.</p>
<p>While not a research project of my own, I did talk about a research project I did at work.
I studied power consumption patterns of OS Drives in Servers to create modified Array Controllers that used less power (compared to their Storage counterparts). </p>
<p>What sucks is that the actual details are HP Confidential, thus I couldn't send copies :\ So I ended up sending a copy of an example case study with a "Customer X" to show how I improve firmware and work well with customers.</p>
<p>This probably doesn't count as research, but I love sorting through public astrophysical and spectrographic data. I've done analysis of galaxy formation/population and created 3d maps of local galaxy superclusters.</p>
<p>My son did computer science research at the University of Florida for a summer. He previously completed a variety of projects on his own.</p>