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  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without discussing something related to software or tech startups. Entrepreneurship

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a ... Facebook — reading a piece where every syllable, every punctuation mark ... assembly, truss geometry, or finite element analysis, but what a project

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... years, because I don't. They**** say MIT's like a box of chocolates, or Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  baked or otherwise encountered recently. Around ten, I met up with another ... 2012 Facebook group, and reruns of Scrubs. I should get to bed (and I ... . All right, I'm out. Best of luck to you all with finals, APs, IBs, or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  within one or two days of the interviewer. Should I be concerned about this ... Freshman)? 1. You can be at MIT for all of, part of, or none of IAP -- it ... drop formal studies to be by my family. 1. What additional information or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... the title: February 7, 2005, entitled, "Questions Omnibus, Part One" Most hits, one entry: 10,976 (March 14, 2005: Pi Day/Decision Day) Most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  've thought, drinking 3-4 cups of straight-up black coffee a day was ... sophomore year of high school, I took this writing class called English 1A ... "either I finish this cup of coffee or a rough draft of my essay". The first

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  ads on YouTube, or we’d play Guitar Hero. Other nights, I would picnic ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... dining with my teammates, or hogging tables in the [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  Today is Valentine's Day, the holiday where Americans celebrate love ... my favorite Valentine's Day traditions at MIT is the serenade. Various ... for their sweetheart, or friend, or professor. For example, I remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... days of my MIT career, to see the entire community come together so ... interesting ideas or amazing things they had struggled to accomplish. It was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... ) Today is the day of that loud blog, because last week we officially ... . [carousel image1="79767" image2="79766" image3="79770" image4="79765" image5

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  crawling around the ground. Day 1 of class was spent working with ... third day of class and I thought I'd show you a bit of what I've been up ... software and we farted around with a 7-segment display and some LEDs. Ta

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  .02 (physics E&M) or 7.013 (biology). Everyone is always happy to lend a hand ... them will be #1 anymore. This is not Lake Wobegon -- not everybody gets ... hairy trig integral, or how to predict the products of that incredibly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  * to fulfill my major requirement… 6.00, or Introduction to Computer ... Latin, I’m adding a third language to my database this semester (and by ... favorite class of the semester. Why? 1. I have an awesome professor. And by

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  indicator of whether or not you were a resident of Senior House - from what I know, people living here or in EC used "Haus" as an inside joke ... from the front? Yeah. Don't have it. Maybe when I stop being lazy, or

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... it when I wanted to check my mail quickly ina computer cluster or ... have to answer these with either 'Y' or 'N.' And you have to be careful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  , according to them, we don't date or have fun?), because rarely do MIT students ... on my floor, Burton 1, all decorated in such a way that creates a place ... day of classes, a place to drink tea while discussing scholarly topics

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received ... or not" contest There's also free pie for everyone! And, you can pick

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007