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  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  , they had demos set up. The lines for every one of them were so long ... January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units ... around 48 units. Still, imposter syndrome comes up when everyone around you ... light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... Foods as being too expensive for college students. However, you can shop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... finger and struck up a conversation - at work, wandering Third Street

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... 's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  other extracurricular stuff, ahhh. I wish there were a pause button for life. Or maybe just a fast-forward button - because I cannot waittt for ... 'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... -more-mechanically-inclined boyfriend, Daniel M. ’14. For us, physics was always a collaborative

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  to say they were not qualified to run for office. When women do run ... of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but ... Conference for College Women Student Leaders in College Park, Maryland, and met

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha ... finals week I get up extra early for two mornings and make sure that there ... as mentors, role models, guides, and resources for the students who

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the ... making money. I had money saved up from over the summer but it quickly ... up a lot of your time. Here are my top ten ways to earn money at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  [The Call For Guest Entries has been updated/modified] Wow, excuse ... activate it you need to speak blender to it. I could describe it for you all ... . Blendie. CPW is screaming up on us guys! I'm excited, it sounds like you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  -desk-things that are perfect for setting up shop and spending several hours buried in ... 'm all for taking pictures, even having taken many stupid ones myself ... books. I know I've never gone there for books. I go there because it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  energy. Jiu-Jitsu prepares a person for any situation, including stand-up ... chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  for Boston, picked it up off my desk and stuck it into my pocket. Not ... when she ran out of unsweetened bakers' chocolate, so she chopped up some ... moments I saw. For example, there was the "delicious and healthy" Rachael

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down ... silly silly vern vern. So, read on for a well-crafted narrative and ... a stunned grouse, for one hour, nine minutes, and seventeen seconds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005