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Blog / MIT Life
Small talk How about that weather?
Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to… -
Blog / MIT Life
Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.
The field hockey team is doing awesome this year, (The Tech even wrote an article about us breaking records!) but when we lose, we lose spectacularly. Like last night, we… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.
Saturday/Sunday was the famous MIT Press Bookstore loading dock sale. Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so they’re sold for drastically reduced… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.
So I know you’re all sitting at home, wondering, “Hey, what’s up with that dead guy having Veronica’s name written on his hand?! Was Veronica involved in that bus going… -
Blog / Admissions
Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.
Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I’d just finished my Philly school visits. I visited Girls High (Alia’s alma mater), then drove downtown to JR Masterman,… -
Blog / MIT Life
Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…
It’s Q&A time! Ajit asked: “who is the person in the 5th picture from top.roommate?i have few questions- 1.how many students(UG) share a room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there… -
Blog / Academics & Research
No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…
So this is what an Add/Drop form looks like: Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “But Laura, even though you haven’t written in this blog in forever, I… -
Blog / MIT Life
Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.
I’ve been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I’m being dragged around and coerced into moderately horrible icebreaker activities. In other words, Orientation is in… -
Blog / MIT Life
I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…
So dear readers, I have finally made it to MIT. I���m writing this from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon be posting… -
Blog / Admissions
Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…
So, Online Freshman Advising Folders became available on Monday, which means excited little prefrosh like yours truly got to find out several exciting little tidbits about our freshman year. First,… -
Blog / Athletics
Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…
…eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees…let’s talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the… -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY
Name: Bryan G. Nance Job title: Director of Minority Recruiting Hometown: Queens, NY High schools: Benjamin N. Cardozo (Bayside, NY) and William Penn (New Castle. Delaware) College, year, major: Norfolk State -
Blog / How to MIT
THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...
Well my fellow 09er’s, as most of you already know, AP scores are in the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going to open… -
Blog / MIT Life
Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.
So, being an incoming frosh, there’s really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to… -
Blog / How to Human
notes on hope despite despite despite
today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i’m back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on… -
Blog / Uncategorized
Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face
remember thinking that the test must not have been graded out of 100. I ... , divider to divider. P.S. The Folder is not just a metaphor, it is a 100 ... and good nourishment. 100% support can make or break you. I also don -
Blog / Challenges
The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out
hiker, imagine climbing 100 stories of stairs, which the internet tells me ... wasn't going to make it, and had to stop every 100 feet or so. I consider ... different altogether. I imagine if I ran 100 simulations of my life, how -
Blog / Academics & Research
Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major
for the communication-intensive real analysis class (18.100C, now renamed 18.100Q) I took my freshman spring. It criticizes math education in ... had jumped immediately into 18.100 I would have been overwhelmed; I know -
Blog / Academics & Research
Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.
class with a different crowd. 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Short lunch at Stata. 1:00 ... school, since the two years past then has generally been lectures with 100