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  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for ... Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  .  It's a week-long "boot camp" during IAP where you do a lot of workshops ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of ... buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A Part III blog. _________________________________ Q: I got a question

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  has so many food opportunities, but do you feel that it causes people to be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... places that bring everyone together?" That's a good question, and one I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  actually do form a coherent unit. Concentration Advisor: "I'll be back ... some country of my choice to do astronomy research in a new cultural ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  's okay if you're not a nationally recognized mathlete. If you do end up ... The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  . Second semester, D's and F's do not show up on your transcript, but A's, B ... take a class, do a short internship, travel, go home, or just bum around ... 1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress ... graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  clockwork, having time to study, hang out, and do a ton of activities at the ... I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  I can do it again. I had written about a UROP project that I had ... optimization,  and made a ballistic squirrel do a backflip for my final project ... Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart ... of lying. We all know good lies contain a grain of truth, like how CPW shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  what I’d do without math. Now I’m a double major in Political Science ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... same visceral response to a booked OpenTable page as I do to the blaring ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016