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Blog / Admissions
How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.
National Merit scholar, so I knew I'd have to do really well on the PSAT. So ... National Merit. Bad news: I got a 1430 on the SAT I. NOTE:I do not ... , girls' state... you would sort of suspect that I was doing it for my -
Blog / Events
How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food
Before Charm School: [shouts across the room] “Yo, you’ve got some stuff in your teeth. That’s grody, dude!” After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.
Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they ... easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home
always be doing something, to always be busy, to always be improving ... two weeks of IAP doing absolutely nothing though. As you may or may not ... . Although I certainly do see the appeal of the latter. It’s all personal -
Blog / MIT Life
What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!
of the trip was spent in Chulucanas doing service work while we stayed ... - which I have been doing all four years of my time at MIT). From Ting, '13 -
Blog / MIT Life
A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…
pitch-black darkness until accidentally crossing the Do-Not-Cross line ... in kindergarten that I could do anything if I tried, so I ignored ... verifying that air-filled kiddie pools float without crumpling and doing the -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day
train: #5, two hours and 51 minutes late listening to: Do By Friday It ... not expect the catastrophe to develop so quickly. Because of this, the ... kindness of bringing me some In-N’-Out and some bread and cookies. I still do -
Blog / MISTI
COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽
feminism’s been doing for the last thirty years is working. People are chill ... feminism’s been doing, it’s making progress. Strangers offer to put you on ... get down. He did. He leaned in and I moved quickly away. “Are you good -
Blog / Challenges
dealing with loss it ain't easy
a sad playlist was about all I could do to process what was happening ... wasn't optimal, but there was nothing else I could do. I put my all into ... administered so quickly that it was done before I could even register the last -
Blog / How to Human
Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle
out I don’t have to be perfect in order to be happy with what I do. How ... , unlike Spyfall, so there’s never a second where you’re not doing anything ... said, isn’t it weird, how quickly we’ve gotten used to living in MIT -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French
, we spent two weeks doing nothing but soaking in the atmosphere of Paris ... quickly went to work deciphering the jokes. Anyone who has learned a foreign ... ’m taking advantage of being in Europe to do some traveling with my mom. Until -
Blog / Academics & Research
Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.
lower-level classes, but it instead serves as a quick way of fulfilling ... can pass the ASE, you actually do have a pretty good grasp of the ... Starbucks watching Chem lectures and doing problems…during which time I -
Blog / Academics & Research
‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record
me to recover, but I did shut my mouth and head to class as quickly as ... p-sets, never to complain about them, to always do them on time, to be ... all change without warning. One thing I do know for certain is that the -
Blog / Advice
Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"
? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a ... to do next. Now that I've spent the last few years in "science," I ... just enough to be okay with doing it for the next five years (and maybe -
Blog / Life after MIT
If I ever come back on being away from mit
simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after ... easier. Let's simplify this decision. Should I do an MEng or not? Should I ... mistakes. Feature gates let you quickly switch between code paths. Database -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary
do not usually enjoy dystopia, and I also don’t usually enjoy literary ... eloquently than I could do). So I’ll just make a few more notes. Just a few ... critically. I do think that someone should have caught it before it went to -
Blog / Classes
Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts
!” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... ’s hard to explain what Homestuck is quickly, but some of its themes are ... thing to do. JOHN: what if i get distracted because i’m sad? JOHN: what if