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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 ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... companies. To think that these two amazing companies where started over

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get to be a perfectly average student with perfectly average problems ... I have finally failed hard enough to prove that I needed help as a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... . 2:06 "MIT is very much a problem solving based approach to education ... professors. "There are two main ways to leave a legacy," they say, "I could

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  comfortable. I began to understand it was possible for me to find niches where ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a giant glass box full of sand, and a fume hood where they test low ... third floors and could not find the kitchenette where I remembered getting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  ran to a cluster and surfed around on the internet before finding a very ... writing instructor came up to us. "You guys, have you filed a patent for ... idea to a group of people that could potentially steal it. I recommend a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A ... with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... around the court, each one standing in a way that prevents direct runs to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  definitely worth a read (and worth watching), but I wanted to highlight ... change I accepted, even grew to love, for a time. Even at a Freshman-Sophomore Invitational I scarcely qualified to compete in, where I came dead last among all

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  spec poetry, which is lovely to find out. I wrote a few of these and ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  a city where important things happened to people, where everybody ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... everything that was yet to come. This is where my life begins, I thought. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 's climate system, a topic I find much more interesting. I wonder if I'm doing ... 'm probably going to switch majors. I wrote a two post series back in June about

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... were difficult, but it mattered also that I couldn't find the time to ... winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... Technology. I mean, a place that allows me to take reasonably good pictures 1

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn ... professors at each school to find out which ones I might want to work with, but

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  amount of time to classes every moment where I could have fun was a nice ... semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... through lecture halls’ doors Proclaiming that they have a message of love to ... house us in a place where we can be inspired and taught By one another

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... looking to dive into a theoretical physics book. Truth be told, you're looking to do something as mindless as possible. And this is where my

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  'm trying to find a project and an advisor. Other than that, I'm still trying ... , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River ... decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014