funhogging: to take more than one’s fair share of fun When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to browse photos of mountain sports. These…
Before Charm School: [shouts across the room] “Yo, you’ve got some stuff in your teeth. That’s grody, dude!” After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As…
Confession time: I’m one of those West Coasters. The ones who get really excited about snow. The ones who keep yapping on about how pretty the snow is while everyone…
“I’ve been tooling all night.” “I’m so hosed.” “IHTFP.” “I just pulled an all-nighter finishing three psets.” They say you can tell a lot about a culture from its language.…
Some people can draw. My friend Alison, for example, drew this fabulous “artistic representation” (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout. Yes, that is my Chrome beanie. I, alas, cannot draw.…
If you’re looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you’re in the wrong place. You see, I’m a…
[context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT’s version of homework. And by “MIT’s version”, I mean that while a typical pset might only…
There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning: (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money Luckily, thanks to our…
On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and generally alarming everyone within a half-mile…
My typical summer weekday runs as follows: 5 AM: Beep-beep-beep-beep – my alarm goes off, I look out my window, and I realize that once again, I’m awake before the…
This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college career. It didn’t seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston…
MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I’ve learned the following: (1) Work…
What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT’s Division of Student Life,…
I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve wracking
First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around, and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There’s homework, lab, extracurriculars, office hours – so much…