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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... 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 / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... deeper level, I feel a much more palpable fear now that this is my fate ... again. Our group has grown a little bigger, but that's okay. But I still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... . (For the most part, that is - I was still drugging myself with everything ... me in over a year" thing? Yeah, about that - when something brings me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  (I don't know what they do). UpNano (they build a thing that lets you ... the next few years. It was a fun talk, and it's exciting how I ... , but I think the best table always builds the house in a new way. My

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  citizens? You can do that online even if you’re six years old. How is ... is a series of MOOCs that deal with the issues of the day like The ... universities in the world. Are you worried that you have no qualifications to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -entropy expressions is that they carry a high cognitive load, which is how much working ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I ... (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a protest. My mother, from Nanjing, China, has a green card, and so when I ... could not be more proud, and I am certain that you join me in thanking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  ’ shift is the core of the poem. i would like to think that in my villanelle ... ‘warm’ is the core.  i would like to think that i have found home. in ... acknowledging that i was homesick changed a lot of things for me. my roommate also

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  [/annotation], which is a full-semester version of 6.0001. However, I stayed in 6 ... feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... . Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  active is ESP. I talked about Splash, a program that ESP runs, at length on ... IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... a lot of them on my schedule. One of them, I guess, is a waltz class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  applications! Being a senior, whether in high school or college, is just really ... heal us. As a step in that direction, we want to share a list of things ... . And here is a list of timestamps that *actually* heal our souls: Pearl

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12,500

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... something is still broken. That’s a problem, because the more tired I get, and ... choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  A few weeks back, I ran into my friend Andre '08 on the T (that is ... MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  clearly labeled. While there is a specific rationale for every question that ... , please send a note or email directly to me.  While that may result in me ... individuals.  In that regard, they aren't wrong.  There is probably no college

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... have accomplished so much and grown in ways that I cannot even describe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  think how I was attending these events with my friends as a freshman and ... it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... a giant Trojan Duck (yes it is exactly what it sounds like: a GIANT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... borrow some rain boots please. The thing I hate most in life is soggy socks

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... is in Switzerland skiing all term while I slave away in lab doing all ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . I’d known that the Institute was a sheltered bubble, but didn ... %) increase in something is already a reason for intervention. We're not really ... . Data tables are also great. In the past two months, I have learned a lot

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017