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Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , to my untrained chemical engineering eyes, simply miracles of urban -
Blog / Academics & Research
UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…
goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super -
Blog / Events
I’m still here. Promise.
-credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel -
Blog / MIT Life
Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.
discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in -
Blog / Admissions
Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.
For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was very cool -- all of the boat engines were converted from used Honda car -
Blog / Challenges
am i boring or just overstimulated?
with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from -
Blog / People & Identities
OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe
, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came -
Blog / Challenges
Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !
writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room -
Blog / Challenges
The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…
In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of -
Blog / Study Abroad
The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors
One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student -
Blog / Academics & Research
Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?
. Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking ... Playsentations, the final Toy Design hoorah where all of the groups present their -
Blog / Admissions
Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT
and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?
After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well -
Blog / Personal Travel
F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc
_grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I feel like I've experienced both ends of activity levels: doing all the ... tales of how both of these trips came together: 2023: New York, NY and -
Blog / Uncategorized
Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24
and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of ... windy because I was scared that a tornado would come out of nowhere, while -
Blog / Personal Projects
Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions
In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines with "Washlava," a laundry platform consisting of IoT-connected machines ... )"]part of the building with no elevator.[/annotation] It wasn't a huge deal -
Blog / How to Human
Strands literal and metaphorical >:)
, I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... dull roar of a hair dryer. I walked into the store with overgrown -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day
This is part three of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the -
Blog / People & Identities
I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you
use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital ... probably dying of heat stroke. Marina T '25, Kidus Y '25, and I laying
