FAQ / Life and culture
Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?
cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more ... posting tutorials on YouTube.
Three years later Sal left his job as a hedge
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Blog / Challenges
soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose
physics classes. The students in the class of 2022 and 2023 were put on an experiment, where they could choose to take three of these on Pass/No Record ... what do I want to do, really? On the Friday of the first week of class -
Blog / How to Human
Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)
requires a lot of concentration (at least on my part). Everyone knows the ... past CPW, one of my freshmen was on Next CPW Comm, and suggested a ... I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved
years ago. I was left with pieces of pepperoni and cheese on the ground, a large stain on my pants, and a burnt-and-undercooked slice of tomato sauce ... , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the -
Blog / Challenges
avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff
long. Where did the actors go? So I go on eating through the bottom of my ... clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one -
Blog / Admissions
Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest
Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... had fun, and sufficient challenges as well. Now you’re ready to move on ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With -
Blog / Personal Travel
Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.
students give presentations on their research and the chair of the admissions committee gives an overview of the program. Recruits go on San Francisco tours ... interview. Berkeley puts the 35 of us who are also interviewing at Stanford on -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.
of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all-nighter," so I'm figure pretty well on my way there. Of course, I think one of ... So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT -
Blog / How to Human
relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.
on others that that strips me of my merit as a student and I begin to ... Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of -
Blog / About Decisions
We Were Deferred
Earth Move Into the Woods -- A mish-mash of many fairy tales Agony On the ... IS OUR ALL TIME FAVORITE MUSICAL. Based on a 70-page chunk of War and ... 's cover of it and Sara Bareilles cheering him on When He Sees Me Bad Idea -
Blog / MIT Life
Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*
Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... that I have a lot of crap. 20ish trips and multiple breaks later I had -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?
-colored shoes 6. She once wrote a 5-page paper on The Economics of Richard Cheese ... Someone commented on the post regarding blogger applications asking ... as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of -
Blog / MISTI
The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!
about twenty years of travelling on the Delaware coast and three years ... DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of ... day, it seemed more just like your average resort town on the Atlantic -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
. We care so much that many of us have tried to explain this on the blogs ... aware of the impact that an admittance to MIT can have on a student’s life ... ’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions -
Blog / Admissions
last minute application panic for the procrastinators
working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here, please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm, embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon -
Blog / MIT Life
Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?
Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ) putting on ALL of my beanies, which is a lot of beanies if anyone asks ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items -
Blog / Hacks
“futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?
some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was -
Blog / Academics & Research
February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus
#5 (out of 7), and played games on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. In ... photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3
and a potential spot on the Boston Poetry Slam Team that will compete at ... campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I ... hours of wonderful original content. But before I continue you may be -
Blog / Uncategorized
Bloggerduction a challenger appears
write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... what I know a lot about is math. I almost wrote one of my MIT essays ... the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back