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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and make sure every page was laid out correctly, but also to steer the design ... what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to ... anything else done. But, of course, as soon as classes ended I set to work

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who ... I've got this term is 6.003: Signals and Systems. And, to be honest, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been ... form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to ... Ivy, and we dragged our luggage to Baker, which is where we would be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... -- most upperclassmen are probably still trying to erase memories of their ... be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  used some of our wing budget to buy three more of them. they are very ... each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study.  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  , and on Saturday evening I went out with James '11 and Sara '12 to buy ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  Development Kit – [annotation note="But somehow also twice as expensive to buy ... was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  what to buy, and where things are located. I inspect a bag of clementines ... Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  when I pondered aloud what to buy. (I ended up not buying anything. I ... to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  me, seemed very sturdy and dependable, and I decided to buy it. I ... , attempting to escape the zoom rooms which fill my life now. i love the color ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering, headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  then have to clean it up, and even just buying all the ingredients can ... recipes so that I know what spices I want to buy when I get back. I'm hoping ... alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019