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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... . They also put up a bunch of pictures of Iron Man and said you can fly ... , they had demos set up. The lines for every one of them were so long

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  and watched fireworks from the windows on the top floor, going up from ... bakes often and leaves the cake, or brownies, or cornbread, up for grabs ... up and sending each other snapchats of food and scenery. so i'm at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  , Professor Hazel Sive had an inspirational quote as her first slide up at the ... anyway...” Sometimes I’m about to start just as another blagger puts up a ... clears up in a week or so) it’s the energy all of that takes out of you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... the Media Lab. Up until recently, it was MIT’s oldest undergraduate ... were? I even ended up living in her suite for REX week (affectionately

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... bioengineering, but I did not want to give up on writing. This mission has been

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units ... around 48 units. Still, imposter syndrome comes up when everyone around you ... start-up. As part of my Course 15 (management) curriculum, I get to take

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  vision, and in that context...I had a hard time being picked up [by facial recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the ... called the Perpetual Line-Up, which talks about unregulated use of facial

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  the headset. When I pulled up a 3D graph of stock market forecasts, I ... ) overlaid on the real-world, popping up and "standing" on whatever surface the ... camera over it and a digital gecko popped up to life on his wrist. His

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  ? Intersectionality is the idea that a person's identity is made up of the sum of ... identities did you share the most with people when you were growing up?" I ... could benefit from learning about why many people are so "hung up" on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... pick up that terribly heavy pile of dirty clothes in your room and lug it ... . I’d go to bed around 1 am every day and wake up at 6:30 am. THIS IS

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the way forward. In the afternoon we might open up to discussion, feel ... other about hopes, about politics, about the American people. I picked up a marker and began to think about what to write, but ended up putting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up ... this, I swear. I just googled 34,000+ and this is what came up.   ... consider maybe becoming a doctor (if you really want a leg up on the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the ... the room was for networking, while the startups had tables lining up the ... to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat ... a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... Three Classes ended yesterday, and I cleaned up the notes on my i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  bins to stock up on grains and nuts. Around Boston Haymarket Location: 96 ... discount. Come at closing time, and stock up as vendors clear their stalls ... farmer picks the selection and quantities, so you may end up with, say, 10

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... the waitlist at the last one, enrolled, didn't like it, and ended up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  semester is starting to heat up and being off P/NR is mildly terrifying. I ... thing. We were going to take it back to campus, but we ended up eating it ... campus. Central Square was lit up and alive. We stopped at Starbucks and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes ... , from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... took them with us to meet up with Ami G. ‘14 MEng ‘16 (like me! but she

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  to be when I grew up. So I guess some thinking about the future. But ... write-ups effectively. I want to be a master of communication, and I feel ... heavier course loads as necessary. It took giving up some clubs and extra

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016