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Blog / Academics & Research
Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!
getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... my [granted, pretty sharp] 10-year-old brother to understand this, even -
Blog / Academics & Research
Mind and hand
't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation
your den FROSH: to cry about your future ME: ME: ME: ME: so hey do ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we ... MINNESOTA: what high school did you go to FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: do you know -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos
to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I -
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Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.
-to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form -
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3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy
Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.
came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up: Now you're ready. On September 14, Chris Peterson e-mailed the -
Blog / Academics & Research
HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help
to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so -
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A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.
summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!
clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website ... sorority life at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/panhel/www/index.htm). Want to test ... recruitment! Recruitment is a five day process, where you get to meet a lot of -
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Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad
to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament
full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting -
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Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston
science, want something to learn over the summer and possibly get a verified ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local -
Blog / Advice
parallel universe for those feeling dejected
time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is ... , diffuse, waiting to be molded into reality. -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
things that are golden a zine
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay -
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Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek
My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow and clouds and feeling alone with yourself and the footsteps you’re -
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The end of a chapter
was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and -
Blog / Admissions
Painting by number The anti-formula
out to be woefully short on substance. I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters