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  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it's part of our ~MIT experience~ so we’re including it anyways) 1. We had ... (the topic of the class today) where our teacher showed us animatics from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... ) through Global Startup Labs, the actual purpose of the trip! It’s an ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends ... about the MIT startup community. One of the projects I'm co-leading is building a database of alumni, so last day and night I spent a lot of time

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous years for the classes of interest (thanks Cameron!) because if I’m going

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... /Oliver Queen. Source: Imgur   Every time I go to one of these events, I

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

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies ... Engineer's Code of Ethics," which I've copied below: Approve software only

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was ... weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like ... dressed out of the norm. Wearing just a flannel shirt is out of the norm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence ... ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by just like that. This past year was full of big changes—new city, new friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... sent me. (It was something short, along the lines of "Congratulations!"). If you're always nervously unpatient about these sorts of things, like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween ... value and street cred. Here's one of the first songs: One more thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this semester, which explains my lack of blogging (not that that's unusual or ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the excitement last year: a few members of MIT's Musical Theatre Guild decided that ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... experienced person there!” ...all of the interns were Ph.D students. “Rachel, are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  definition of ice climbing, I don't know it. But a layman's definition might be ... and an assortment of other tools, just like climbing makes use of your hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... could process. While one always needs a certain level of conscious ... down my French Word of the Day and then Korean Word of the Day, and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011