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Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…
'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of -
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(Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time
last saw each other at graduation. But a lot had still changed. As we ... teachers who used to work as a therapist at a juvenile delinquent center -
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How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly
branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!
everything at some point’ hahaha” Selam G. ‘18 Pisces Rat Hufflepuff ESFJ ... personality type, and I think I have a similar personality to her, or at least I ... switched.” *(Here's the video, reference at 2:06, and here is the poster for -
Blog / Admissions
The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application
descriptively incorrect. At its most basic form, it's a variant of post hoc ergo ... example, a student who receives a gold medal at the IMO is probably more -
Blog / Admissions
It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you
look at it. College decisions are not a reflection of your personal merit -
Blog / Admissions
Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.
had one. There are four TED talks I watched last night at 2:something -
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Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do
far away, because looks at all these new experiences you've had. The new -
Blog / About Decisions
As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in
all into everything you do. You’ll probably miss at least as often as -
Blog / About Decisions
Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.
you pursue your passion, you will have developed a love for and skill at -
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Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.
work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston -
Blog / Academics & Research
Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun
hadn't worked in a lab for about a year at that point, and deliver a ... to make things run as smooth as possible, minus the yelling at actors -
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I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas
around/excercising. I mostly listen to funny podcasts and laugh at -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.
1992: Violent Femmes 1991: Jesus Jones 1990: Psychedelic Furs 1989: ‘til ... Trick / 'til tuesday 1983: The Tubes 1982: The Ramones 1980: Battle of the ... Staton 1962: The Four Preps There are two concerts at MIT (one listed -
Blog / MIT Life
snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain
civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... fundamental difference; indeed peaceful coexistence seems impossible without at -
Blog / Academics & Research
Google
, I was accepted into the program. ** I interned twice at Google, first ... skyline. Before starting off work in LA, I spent a week at the Google ... made my week. My internship at Google was about good code and putting -
Blog / Academics & Research
You win some, you lose some. day in the life.
11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... peaking at about 20,000 votes per minute and I don't think upon rebooting -
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Kick . . . start
release of the MIT Application at the end of summer. I know during the ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by ... whether you'd like to contribute. I make an appearance in the video at 3 -
Blog / Personal Travel
Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.
beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... at fifty kilometers, it's the second-longest rail tunnel in the world ... to Paris' Gare du Nord lasts nearly three hours, crossing the Channel