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Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship
While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7-10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics ... team, Tech placed first in air and free, and sixth in standard pistol. On -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... science and technology. The Task Force on Student Life & Learning -- aka ... be worked on in groups; cross-department labs are very common; MIT is -
Blog / Events
5 days until Mystery Hunt
finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... . Here, one team is working on "Drawing Conclusions I" (try it yourself at home!). Still trying to solve Drawing Conclusions I... Working on -
Blog / Admissions
Everyday Is Like Sunday
received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions ... . The early pool this year was very strong. On the topic of the strength ... comments on this or any other blog did not have any bearing on admissions -
Blog / Admissions
Selection Day 2
have everyone on the subcommittee agree what the right action (admit ... stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case ... email, or available on the phone. I'm happy to report that this year -
Blog / Residential Life
river and rainwater a rainy walk home
last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as ... the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my -
Blog / Athletics
dance dance revolution lessons from ddr
: there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... , and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the corresponding arrows reach the top of the screen; you get points based on how well -
Blog / Challenges
i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid
on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... someone on Sunday who tested positive for Covid a few days after. The ... the day. I found out about the close contact I met on Sunday. I told my -
Blog / Internships & Externships
life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward
intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now that my internship is wrapping up tomorrow, I'm reflecting on what I -
Blog / Miscellaneous
fun. the band, but also the form
chorus from Be Calm, the opening song on their first album: Oh, be calm, be ... classroom on Tuesday morning and had to run to get there. I went to an extra lab section on Thursday than I should have. My psets all came out at -
Blog / Miscellaneous
updates i'm still here.
, balanced meals daily, exercise, finish my assignments on time, study for tests and score decently in them, make my bed, do laundry, check up on my ... past on the Infinite and call my parents is a tall order to do even in -
Blog / Admissions
The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!
Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area -
Blog / Advice
21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...
’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... the other person. If you must, only argue on matters that go against ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth -
Blog / MIT Life
Balancing Act… ...or not
putting sleep and meals on the back burner (pun intended). My classes and ... to Market Basket. This involves going on the Red Line to the Davis then ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!
and great. The week started off on August 18th when us counselors met up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman arrived on the 21st, so that gave us around three days to do all the prep -
Blog / Academics & Research
The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research
’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials ... have me on board with no coding ability or past experience!. The -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure
It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... ! Welcome aboard! On behalf of our pilot and flight crew, I’d like to thank -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures
, encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast Pacific Ocean on the other. Tucked into little apartments and host families ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast
to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and ... the 2017 US Figure Skating Jump On It! Camp. It was 93 degrees when I
