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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 jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... that the rest of the world is missing.  Sam says that very few founders

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

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... 've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that ... the admissions decision. That's a fact also. In the publishing industry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I Wrote A Thing media and articles and no punctuation

  

  particular, the hospitalization of my friend - she is named Emily in the ... picture of me at the top of the article - it's slightly overwhelming But I like the dress I wore I was also on the radio with some pretty cool

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  have received an email from us last Friday about completing the Wait List ... complete the form and submit it by April 25, 2014. In the meantime, be sure ... making a deposit). There won't be further news on the wait list until mid

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  There Will Be Pi (Day)

  

  We have something to tell you - with a little help from the bloggers ... are released, access decisions.mit.edu and login using the same username ... ://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php and enter your username and password. The verify page is available now

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  posting patterns on the blogs. But when I ran it earlier this morning, I realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various metrics, meaning I myself had been a bad blogger. I'll spare you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  here we are, me crufting on the blogs, you not knowing who I am. I never ... , Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... to forget that people have actually managed to pull off the incredible

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on the open blog threads, and since there were so many questions regarding ... . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors ... parts of the Boston area I *still* haven't seen: Museum of Fine Arts

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... welcoming and cutting-edge place to work abroad. The research that I chose to

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  all necessary. In the past, most of the non-Jewish members had at least ... wanted to be in Techiya, not because they wanted to be in the Chorallaries ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  . (Also: I’ve had to accept the fact that at MIT, there’s only freshmen and ... late nights every week since school started, involving going to the architecture studio sometime during the day/evening and leaving somewhere between

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  Horrors or as “TA number 2” (the one with music on Fridays ... remember Rachel. I was the one who made you promise not to let her fall down the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  to drop off lights, glowsticks, and popcorn machines, the grass is growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it ... we're going to feed all of you! And, you know, run you into the ground

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  Sorry for the absence, I've been busy (lame excuse, sorry. The actual ... drive and move (which is exciting!) but even more exciting is the fact ... -ball-nomming beasty. http://twitter.com/c2bot Definitely be tuned in to the feed on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so ... college. Besides, as in the good ol' childhood times, it’s always fun to ... advising seminars. The general scheduling rule here is classes from 9

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into Killian Court for commencement. (Unfortunately the weather isn't nearly as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  more detail, developing characters and the setting and the various twists ... people go on to write their ideas out. The minority that does go to the ... graduation. I haven't graduated yet so I have no direct knowledge of this.) The

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009