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Blog / MIT Life
SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes
rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In -
Blog / Admissions
Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.
're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for ... , donuts, dinners at fraternities. So keep the cash in your wallet for your ... Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a -
Blog / Challenges
there is no time left musings on death and the future
about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some ... , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have -
Blog / About Decisions
Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral
too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?
can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along -
Blog / MIT Life
The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange
Manning. While I have done so much for Andrew, I ask almost nothing in ... to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside -
Blog / Admissions
My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.
in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus -
Blog / MIT Life
Dorm Rush and Hall Rush
then there was Hall Rush (or In-House Rush...I guess if you're in, say ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... cool out there in the courtyard: This interesting spinning ride, a -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist
chip in December, demonstrating useful error correction for the first ... quantum engineering class in the spring. Next, when planning my classes for ... I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math -
Blog / Blog Projects
Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old
that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... said. In the next few days, we’ll be filling the blogs up with our last -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere
studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut back in March. The drive west gave me a lot of nostalgia. In junior high -
Blog / Admissions
Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions
We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in -
Blog / Challenges
hello, again it me
climbing for the first time in ages. I'm refreshing my 18.701 knowledge ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... joys in my life have been derived from small, private moments--a lot of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!
I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog ... in pretty patterns and inspirational intentions. Making my scrapbook ... paper and give it a try. And if it isn't for you, well, I'm always taking -
Blog / Community Projects
Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory
sitting in silence for 10 minutes, could only give us “an upper bound of 37 ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!
in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll. Which MIT professor is your ... a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical -
Blog / Events
Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time
wonderful, down to earth, person. Tune in next time for a life update! My ... lucky enough to video tape. Covering topics from why he majored in physics ... further ado I present to you "Walter Lewin ESG Lecture" in all its 68 -
Blog / Admissions
The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…
Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... past students of RSM are now studying. I've never been in a program -
Blog / Challenges
Small Victories The view from a month into MIT
... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... week). Papers consistently due every month for my HASS. A million
