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Blog / MIT Life
What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…
When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... 't remember why I wanted to be a mailman, but I guess it just seemed like a fun -
Blog / MIT Life
An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.
Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.
Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... to be exact. Amal, the guy who organized the convention, was ... which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a -
Blog / Internships & Externships
From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience
knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... phases: Flying from Boston to London Taking the train from London to Bristol Taking an Uber from the station to the flat I’m staying in (I -
Blog / Admissions
I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!
. I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... which was cool because I was not about to use Windows 8. We had some -
Blog / Admissions
“How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.
live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... and this is our last chance to make certain that every detail is perfect ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can -
Blog / Admissions
How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking
homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... rudimentary to very advanced. It also provides data to the schools where the -
Blog / Athletics
[Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24
wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome everyone to campus. Andre H. '24 gave a great speech that was equal parts fun -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals
particularly friendly, or, to be completely honest, even as[annotation note ... my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice ... positions. I've always put my election to these roles up to a couple of very -
Blog / Life after MIT
Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab
around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students -
Blog / MIT Life
“Why does my kid have to move again?”
Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... /visiting the dorms?" I found the official policy here. Students are allowed to -
Blog / Admissions
To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?
up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me ... related to diversity and inclusion, which had been long-time passions of -
Blog / Academics & Research
What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things
to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too. In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar -
Blog / MIT Life
Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.
. Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight -
Blog / Uncategorized
a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?
either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... Sciences; used to refer to any non-technical class. "I'm taking .006, 18 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take
This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media ... organizing, to the filming, the lighting, the sound recording, and the post-processing. I got to experiment with Super8 film cameras, which are both extremely -
Blog / MIT Life
One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…
documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the -
Blog / Athletics
I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.
to go through and answer them all tonight... unless they were so inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks
committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... students was international. MIT has since worked to increase this number, reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the