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  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  FPOPs are freshman pre-orientation programs, where you get to come to ... to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help our friends resolve their issues so we choose not to help them and in ... classes as a result, ultimately resulting in them not being able to do math

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  in your mouth and start to screw with your teeth so you have to get ... sweet (like Mac! How awesome would it be for Mac to get a cute, sweet guy in her life like Piz?) I mean, smashing in the cop car just to get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... to qualify for the Championship Event in Atlanta. But the competition ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... front leg. When the Red Sox had their amazing comeback in the 2004 ALCS to ... Fenway Park to celebrate in the streets. I could hear the World Series from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  I ended up getting to see Leslie in Kresge. sneaky far away ... didn't get chosen in the lottery, which was sad.   AND YET shout ... within the next 45 seconds because...   ...how could I not go? The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  neat place to chat with other applicants, express how happy you are that you got in, or vent about not getting in. Other outlets include ... so I thought I'd squeeze in one last entry before decisions came out

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... -stage to their partners in rhyme and to their fans in the audience. The

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  out there, in the Real World™️, getting to use all of this cool ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... biology, you can sprinkle in some more bio. If you want to be an engineer

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  learn things more closely aligned to our interests in our last semester ... process in and of itself) to continue learning computer graphics topics that ... Material Point Method, the method used to create the snow simulation in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  get a chance to meet Ben and understand how completely ridiculous he ... "dramatic lemur," and how some unnamed "people in the lounge" were concerned ... justice to how...I don't even have the words. Seriously? That kid was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  how easy is it to set up?" MIT has cross registration ("crossreg") with ... interesting to see "how the other half lives." I was grateful for the opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... that I think I want to work in—transportation planning. It is nice to ... away, I really want to make sure I get an internship with a company I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... I know -- I know how to theoretically gene-edit things with plasmids ... model of schizophrenia Transfect neurons in their intestines to respond

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... she saw me wearing the ring in the wild (and I gasped in despair at how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... so as to illuminate the otherwise dark shadows in the figure. A

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of ... class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023