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

  

  a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  ROTC) detachments, but if you go to a school that doesn’t have their own ... opportunities for ROTC cadets, but you don’t have to have a scholarship to enroll ... family doesn’t speak a word of English :)   4) So do you work out a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... Dreilпњљпњљnderpunkt! My blogging will be a little sparser in the near future because I'm ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... . I wasn't expecting that to happen...but through your comments, your ... joy; when others of them weren't, their sorrow was mine, too. And for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  or anything. But back to classes. This semester, I'm taking a 12-unit ... totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  : Eight times forty-two is a big number. Big enough that I won't feel like ... say the line, "I don't have tuberculosis, but I think I'm catching You ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  credit, but I'm a firm believer in preserving sanity over the summer. (Plus ... cheerleading captain the same weekend, and I didn't sleep or shower for a couple ... lived disproportionately in my dorm, but I didn't have a problem doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't ... this question from someone with a 2.0 GPA, or some similar blatant app ... ?" But I'm only getting it from intelligent, accomplished, creative

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  vast majority of people who apply aren't admitted. See it as a great ... wouldn't worry. Emigna, wrote, "A question about sending in extra ... I made a mistake? Or will they think that I'm lying?! Help, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  -making it up! During Eye-A-Piece, we don't have our favorite place to eat. So ... . So i think i'm done now. here's a picture show i thought was funny ... Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , ...and a waterjet? Don't get me wrong, waterjets are awesome (they spray

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  don’t have a car. [Having a car on campus is pretty impractical unless ... halfway across the world. Sorry I didn't take a picture...].   12:30 - Lunch at Chipotle Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of food on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... trebuchets, a handmade wooden kayak, little robotic wooden men. He continued this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... ways) to print. Escape this terrible fate!! I imagine IS&T explains

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  meditating nearby, so now I’m working to a soundtrack of sad instrumental music ... rambling into the void. Sometimes I feel pretty lonely because a) I don’t ... been read"]“we made mice poop with lasers.” [/annotation] I also didn’t

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  even if I hadn’t, well, I’m a freshman! Under the pass/no record system ... Linguistics, this test doesn’t deserve the label “quiz,” because it’s a full ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We ... performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn’t ... beginning of the ELL, we asked for a volunteer. We didn’t give any background

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  's original vision. I'm a big believer in finding something that works and ... its power. So this year, the blogs aren't tucked away in a hidden ... the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005