Blog
/ About Decisions
Paths there are so many
Robin, should've volunteered that extra hour like Kim." NO! Please do NOT
Search
Search Results
-
-
Blog / Academics & Research
5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)
the lower realms, stuff with no reason, stuff that leads nowhere, base ... opportunities out of pure necessity, because I was no longer sure what I wanted to ... (in other news, i just realized that i have no idea what is good form -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos
student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.
sense of continuity no matter what else seems to change. Candlelit dinners -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart
has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don ... wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.
birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though -
Blog / About Decisions
Fit or happiness made easy
you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea -
Blog / Admissions
The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…
. (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no ... , there's no points or whatever people have left over at the semester (it ... -semester freshmen have the advantage of Pass/No-Record - which basically means that -
Blog / Admissions
Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.
point that it's no longer your work - or, even worse, your voice. So -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!
the chaos of MIT to do no work and hang out with believers and friends ... past, where people of any or no faith can gather to talk about the big -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT
, students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times
“The winter has come. The days are dark, cold, and dreary. There is little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... is pretty normal – no darker, colder, or drearier than it has been -
Blog / Academics & Research
I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese
, but we grew up in Denver, where there was no one like us. This wasn ... subway. No matter where in the world we went, on the subway, people would -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…
wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!
or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... amputated penis has been partially eaten by a duck" In no particular order -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger
...I have no idea what that is. Oddly, as soon as I typed this, my sister ... (paraphrased): .....no. MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology. It -
Blog / About Decisions
Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable
example, this bears no resemblance to snow: Gratuitous picture. Yes, this ... minds: OH MY GOD AHHHH ADMISSIONS DECISIONS?! Well, no, not yet -
Blog / About Decisions
A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.
Cardozo, is sadly no longer on the awning.) Educational Counselors (ECs ... day (except for the plane crash). Unfortunately, there is no way we can -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
Your last first day and your final final exam
taken from Your Last First Day in There Is No Antimemetics Division. There ... hundred metres underground, cared for by no one, known to exist to no one ... it. Would I regret not making amends with my family? No. Would I regret -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.
beeti?” Is there water in Muti? He simply responded, “Aalle.” No, there is ... college. I had to explain simply, since my Amharic and Kafa No’No aren’t too ... responded, no, I told them, I came here to fix Muti’s water problem. There was