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've started a personal blog here. Best of luck to you all. Don't be a stranger
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Blog / MIT Life
Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!
. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular ... anything Nobel Prize worthy, so I don't really qualify for other scholarships ... for being off topic. I don't care. I still strive to fill the Internet -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!
Stop doing your homework, don’t worry about papers, don’t pay your bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there’s no point. This is goodbye, this is my last post. I know what you -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.
. Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an -
Blog / Academics & Research
It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...
second semester! Good luck on your AP exams, too! But don't stress out too -
Blog / Challenges
It’s not all happy I know, shocker!
don't happen every day and they don't happen all day. You know when they ... ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and ... on Thursdays). I don't blog about the specific grades I get or worrying -
Blog / Life after MIT
Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.
term), and 700 undergraduate majors. Don't let the size scare you! - you ... during a term will face a stage of self-doubt: they don't understand some ... faculty won't understand, so they don't seek out help or advice. Contrary to -
Blog / About Decisions
Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…
Admissions Decisions 1. Dream about getting into colleges that don't exist ... much fun as it is being pompous and loathed by everybody, just don't do it. Nobody likes that guy. You don't want to be that guy, do you?) 4 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.
i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don't complain; I've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted -
Blog / Admissions
The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.
heard back from them, don't worry. Give your EC at least a few days to ... . Neighbours. He had retired to the town next to mine. I don't remember much from ... , student activities, and female students). I don't remember anything about -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!
for the Dewey furniture survey. (Clearly, I don't have enough work to do -
Blog / MIT Life
I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?
Pika (69 Chestnut Street) I don't know how many of you had the luxury of -
Blog / MIT Life
Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!
. Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to -
Blog / Admissions
Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.
Required reading (from folks who are better writers than me): Ben Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also: Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don't -
Blog / Events
Happy Pi Day
recitation contest Pie eating contest Free pie for everyone! And don't forget -
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Blog / Admissions
A few quick answers The skinny.
. ------------------------------------- When will regular action decisions be released? I don't know yet when -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.
I don't want to make this blog too political--I will not use Turkey vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any -
Blog / MIT Life
Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…
, it was. Moral of the story: whatever classes don't kill you will only ... bubble of context, and that you don't have to have a certain GPA or certain ... -- and if you don't get in, it's not because you are being rejected, or you -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Belonging Who belongs at MIT?
pretty sweet spaghetti wrestling... what, you don't know what I mean ... wrestling can't be the only thing all 4000 of us have in common. I just don't ... 'm looking for a large sample size, so don't be a lurker -- tell me why you