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Christmas with the McGanns
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Blog / MIT History & Culture
We, the people
As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... the Senior House dormitory), who snuck in just as the film began. I didn't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one -
Blog / How to Food
42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.
(because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... with my brother from Pennsylvania a week ago and I joined them on -
Blog / Academics & Research
A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?
-and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... reason about them. So I thought I’d take the opportunity of doing something I never thought I’d do at MIT—giving you an intro to my classes -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution
and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here. I continue to ... thrilled to tell me about their projects, and I wanted to try all the demos -
Blog / How to Food
How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible
Update: although Pilot 2021 was canceled, I'm leaving the section about it ... a dining hall. I strongly believe that you shouldn't pick a dorm based ... me: I cannot cook. I had a meal plan during the first semester of -
Blog / Admissions
Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report
students.” I was very pleased to endorse the report, along with more than 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... expect. I believe there has been a growing mismatch between what students -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics
I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... they're shared between many other Philippine languages, so I think it ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an -
Blog / Events
Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to
, back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this time, but since I was staying on campus an extra day, I heard tons of students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the -
Blog / MIT Life
(Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…
I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... .[/annotation] Or, well, [annotation note="it will not be"]it will be when I post this -
Blog / Blog Projects
A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video
, where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... last semester, over IAP, and basically until it was uploaded, and I ... /logistically difficult), and finally, this. Kristen did a bunch of thermo (0:07), and I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester
It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... -edge labs around campus. I have been UROPing since freshman spring, but this year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer -
Blog / Admissions
CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…
Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12 -
Blog / Challenges
A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.
cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for 8.03 (Waves and Vibrations) with high expectations. I was not ... education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever
Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... light pollution overhead until I was stuffed with numbness and murky starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of -
Blog / About Decisions
Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.
As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about ... ’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come ... visit an archive to read the full story, but I've pulled out some choice -
Blog / Announcements
We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays
I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... days before the deadline, which I have posted below: I submitted my materials, so why don't I see them in my portal yet? Due to tremendous volume -
Blog / How to MIT
71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack
] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here's what the list would look like [annotation note="Disclaimer: I am fully ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!
Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... nominations than I have years of life. It’s probably very difficult to include -
Blog / How to Human
Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.
I didn't mean to write this entry. I sat down to write about some recent events I've been meaning to blog about for a while - and well, I ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an