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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... motivated to work harder.  Another benefit of shorter cycle times is that it

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

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  be late to class, which would mean my team would have to waste some of ... email”. The one caveat is that often, the food on the list was of ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  equally drained, on the verge of burnout. It's lonely to do this all on my ... skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  efficient way to score points is to do laps on the extremely steep 60 degree ... guaranteed spot on the final day of competition, and get to relax and watch the ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... 've learned to call home. There's this subtle (or maybe not that subtle

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  supposed to be working on. Is an “opportunity” broad (ex: Fires) or specific ... launch! Getting 17 people on the same page is not an easy feat, which ... opportunity (which turned out to be somewhere in the middle of broad and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... -carpet photoshoots and limousine rides. In another universe, she is a sign-spinner on a ... his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  both asked a version of: When/why/how did you switch to course 9? How is ... actions? (just traffic accident etc, or is it just to help drunken college ... matter how expensive their meal plans are, which is why living so close to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the red team was shown to be the better cheater of the two. While there ... on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... have almost a complete outfit of MIT clothes—a shirt, a baseball cap, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance ... am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend ... a Course 20 degree, only one of them is, strictly speaking, Course 20. But that's actually part of the point of biological engineering: it is a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  isn't fully coherent. All of which is to say, I am excited to stop ... cool-- that was a lot of math (and it is about to be quite a bit more in ... bunch of points out in 3-dimensional space. Our goal is to (again) bound

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  some definition of success (especially when success is tied to work or a ... number which changes depending on when the Lyft is called (time of day ... , such as to make a valuation on how costly traffic is (just in terms of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  language by the time I graduate) I'm still deciding whether or not to double major or minor with Biology, which is course 7. My freshman year, I lived ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  I really don't like about CPW is that I suddenly have to convert to ... assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn't relate to the content of the department or the time period it was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a variety of fall-themed Trader Joe’s snacks (the maple syrup fudge is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  of the day, a person's success is not determined by which school he or ... of a sudden a big optional means that an 800 or 790 or whatever is not ... ." Please remember that no one is ever admitted to MIT based on numbers. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  day on which I will again not tell you about FASAP. Except, that is, to ... number is first converted to a hash) Not surprisingly, most of Random Hall ... is about as easy to follow as the derivation of the Schrodinger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... put into them (almost). I hear it gets even better as you go along--which

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  to see if the bot is capable of generating a reasonable response ...  grammar, which is a set of rules that tells GPT-3 what should and should not be ... interesting lines of code, I get to put Microsoft on my resume, I have more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022