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  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  Entrepreneurship. Besides providing a massive amount of mentorship, resources and ... The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  by the fact that i don't have a lot of motivation to write fiction. gah ... 's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... Sadoway. Speaking of Professor Sadoway, there was a nice article about him ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  continues in parallel is the financial aid process. For those of you applying ... the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  process. I could go through it step by step with you, but Ben's already ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... a lot of energy. It executes instructions sequentially instead of in ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  cars rolled by: And we ran into the waiting arms of an enormous, people ... concerts powered by bikes and guitar shovels: Speaking of guitars, there ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  portfolio enough by the end of this year to get a research job in industry, which is increasingly sounding more and more ideal to me. By the end of ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , assigned by out-of-group peers, that reflects the abilities of the lowest ... learn to diversify their sources of knowledge, process and filter enormous amounts of information and, by doing so, acquire critical thinking skills

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?

  One of the highlights of MIT's yearly academic challenges and competitions, the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge, connects students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  of resources between male and female faculty in every variable that was ... understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance.” President ... presented by the Report was a major factor itself. … The positive impact of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in proper grammar standardized english). It's the time of year (midterms

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  designer reclaiming energy. "Solar Vintage" by Elena Corchero consists of a ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I've seen a plethora of Project Runway ... put on by the Museum of Science. Co-produced by Amanda Parkes from the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  (as I said) being limited by potential contaminants or the effects of ... on how big the rainstorm was. Even by the standards of people living in ... ?   I was surprised and confused the most by the part of this question

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Department of Defense, so his family lives on Okinawa, and it would have been ... an American suburb. We took the commuter rail out of South Station on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time was 99.94, logged by Donald Bradman of Australia over an illustrious 20 ... .391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007