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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... companies, Sam says, is that they can aim to get 10% better every week. Short

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  take-off in Boston to touch-down in Quebec City was around 5 ½ hours because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... of sorts.  i was more conscious of trying to get done with some of my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  . We’re all jealous. In addition to getting into dorms, your ID card is ... could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... get to MIT, however, they care less about the packaging, but the kind of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  't get a PhD in engineering, though, unless you wanted to become a ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... effort to update me on the project via Skype when I was in England and has ... , Katie has been working really hard to learn new techniques and how to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... obvious thing in the world.  VI. In Jane Wong’s book “How to not be ... , it is better to get there late than not at all If I burn myself out in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... 's for some ice cream. As we tried to figure out how to navigate home from ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... -placement puzzle game, where you put engineers and scientists in certain nodes to try ... I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what ... to nothing in the long run. 7:30-8:00 pm Sophomore Welcome Dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would invest in this class and the environment. Each day, we uber to the ... head to a lecture or museum. The variety of museums in Brazil has proven

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  action or get involved and have an impact on what you want to change. I ... about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... 've ever proposed or worked on. I didn't want to think about how my entire

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I ... to say that at some point in last night's studying, around 3 AM, I went

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  and how MIT helped (or didn’t) get them to their current level of ... as good as it gets. I get to oversee all aspects of student life and ... ? Given the interest in and demand for interdisciplinary careers, how can

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how ... the data right in front of me. I could no longer say to my mom, "No

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to ... of this blog to see what others in this class created!) Step 1: Design ... figure out what its function was and how it matched to the Nano. I made

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  the same time, seeing that I'm in withdrawal of learning how to do ... So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006