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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... . Pyrolysis and biochar. It's a little bit hard to imagine that all of these ... later, I'm seated at Walker Memorial, a gymnasium eternally dedicated to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... article about New Coke (a development that led a pregnant Sam's Mom to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a ... to begin, we wiggled our way through the crowd and found a spot where ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... . Iowa became a distant memory as I talked to my old friends less and less ... 'd have more time to talk. And then I graduated, and I went back to a house

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side ... percentage of people who dye their hair weird colors.  It may come to you as no

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine ... participant. Fast forward a decade: our team continues to chug along, picking ... small dashes of whimsy make it go from a list of puzzles to magic. The

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life ... out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute ... drawings. And you know, try not to make it cost a bajillion dollars. My

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... ’t happen. 2020 was the year when I took a break, and I want 2021 to be the ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... means people are forced to "crowd" a room by turning a double into a ... face a maintainence fine because someone else has to dedicate a few hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who ... 'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city ... as my surrogate hometown, I still cling to a few Midwestern habits that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... early. Then, refer to 1. Don’t apply as a fictional character. You know ... your time to remember all the cool things you did in school. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many ... could eat. & Imagination, who loved to imagine he was a beaver. Or ... tool to make their shield puzzle pieces and even a stained glass window

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch ... sitting next to the incrediblyy nice Susan Whitehead. Ahh! P.S. A shoutout ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  the second. This shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist ... ? What about financial aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a ... aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a ... ’m still adjusting to this environment, but i don’t feel like a functioning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019