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Blog / Personal Projects
10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year
’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... quest my sophomore year to [annotation note="actually I think each ... the lightning bolts, I wanted to connect the earring ring to the back -
Blog / Athletics
take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again
two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i have lived longer, so i know more about the best way to walk, and i -
Blog / How to Human
defining the future stop being vague
through action. It is good to know where the moon is, but you’ll never get ... post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty -
Blog / Challenges
Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit
, all around us. On New Year’s, another friend and I went to get lunch ... places that were open, before deciding to walk back and get Saloniki. As we ... , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe -
Blog / Athletics
Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home
, trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... literally moved my whole life to Boston T H E R O U T E H O M E Before -
Blog / Athletics
Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery
, as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any -
Blog / Personal Projects
A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)
(we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes ... himself out of spare parts as a fun project: You have to -
Blog / Personal Travel
Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...
. It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... lunch. I'm half-convinced that any minute now I'm going to get a call or ... to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us -
Blog / Life after MIT
Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood
like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... entire blog post without periodically saving it (I like to live on the edge -
Blog / Events
(Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it
, decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect ... From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It -
Blog / MIT Life
Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…
rolling backpacks and headgear. It's not that my throwback to the early 90s ... getting places quickly, maybe, but not so useful for getting places looking ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.
cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... , introducing them to her favorite trees and caves and perches from which to view -
Blog / Events
I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time
coffee, played some cards, and then it was time to get off the boat :( Now ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the -
Blog / About Decisions
About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!
be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... wants to come here. I know, I know, right? It's true though. I know if I were you and someone said that to me, I'd probably have ignored them and -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…
lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting ... .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish -
Blog / Events
Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!
sure this is condoned. Just to get everybody in trouble, clockwise from ... 't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped ... the background. I got my plane buddy Philip '12 to pull Tim the beaver -
Blog / Events
Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…
-selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??
, I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But -
Blog / About Decisions
Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.
when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited