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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you're ... isn't getting bigger, then for your life to improve you have to take it ... .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  began the semester by learning some basics: how to format comic scripts, what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic artist in addition to your future audience. As time progressed, our writing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very ... fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was ... show you; 2) yes — go to the closet and get another roll and it will pop

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... astrophysics. Coming from an EECS background, I had to Google some of the astro

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  working, then you're not, and then you have new ideas on which to work, and ... sentences below them are heavy on self-reflection. To balance community ... than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  helps you learn to code interactively for free. We didn't get away with ... Jimmy (left) works on Groups, a great way to connect with other beginning ... around your touch. We made sure to take a look at more MIT projects

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  got just dark enough for someone to get injured on playground equipment ... at everything but don't get hung up on anything. Set yourself up to ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  attempts to answer each prompt. (So no, you can’t get a robot to write your ... didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... also force you to go to our beautiful gym and pool, and get your mind off

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  of you still working on your final decision about where to enroll next ... .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is ... their dorm onto the "testing site" below. According to Matt - who, as a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  where you bring your schematic to life. How will these connections and these components be positioned on your actual board? I had to keep in mind ... 'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right ... compelling case for your inclusion among them, please feel free to submit an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what ... ? What did you do? 2. How did the skills you learned from MIT apply to your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  !)"][/annotation] Any thoughts on how to best work with people with many differing ... useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your ... take a while, and it can feel like you’re getting nowhere. This seems to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you're ready to move on - Again, I hate doing the "been there-done that" talk ... self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  [annotation note="To send an email out to all of the dorm mailing lists on ... least favorite places to shit on campus. The survey the bathroom ... . Through this map, you can click on the little poops to see people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... different communities. To me, being on RingComm really helps fulfill both of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  : Residential System: choosing my living group based on cultural fit allowed me to ... return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus, became home. It’s still listed as Home in my Google Maps, and it hurts to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018