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Blog / Life after MIT
Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.
side of the building and made it to the room before he did, undetected ... number 4: This is where it starts to get really good. I'm hoping the MIT ... oppression. Waker was a fun way to spend my Saturday morning. If you try it out -
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Blog / Academics & Research
我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事
(Read the English version here!) 我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆：有一天，我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我，“如果你不睡觉，叔叔会切掉你的鼻子！”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦，可是我知道以前我就会说上海话，可是现在回想起这个记忆，是英文的。 我小的时候 -
Blog / Academics & Research
How hard is it, really? Let down
. Sometimes it isn't, the smart thing to do is to be able to recognize when it ... testing over material I was expected to know. It's easy to memorize the ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather
(Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents… -
Blog / Academics & Research
I failed an exam last week and it will be okay
turn them to math terms, even if I knew how to do the math from there. I ... vocabulary terms next to their math equivalent and tape it to the wall above my ... enough bandwidth to study for this final. After all, the worst thing that -
Blog / Academics & Research
What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…
to the South Station bus terminal. Went through Newbury Street. It was ... start to the end and 20 to drive through its width... Yay red sandstone ... class called the "Nuts and Bolts of Engineering" in case I, y'know, decide -
Blog / Academics & Research
Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability
African Leadership University for a program in the fall and then return to ... voice. As Hassan puts it, that voice can be as simple as the ability to ... . Establishing this redundancy makes it easy to check if there are any -
Blog / MIT Life
On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison
, sometimes it stings. Going from the “smart” friend in high school to the “dumb ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other ... achieve something if they really set their mind to it! I don’t disagree with -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil
very little bandwidth to marvel at this phenomenon because I’d failed to get enough sleep (and food) on the two flights it took to get to Manaus ... somewhere because the restaurant ran out of food for us, so we had to return -
Blog / Life after MIT
After Graduating From beyond the veil :O
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In “Blues”, as the locals affectionately call it, I met ... family of sorts. It was an honor to be there. (also, Yo-yo Ma was the ... so you say no and go to bed instead, despite the FOMO. It was a hard -
Blog / How to Human
i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths
end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... developer because i worked on a relatively familiar stack. if i had to put it ... ever exercising the authority to decide on which future it shall be spent -
Blog / MIT Life
The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).
Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at 7AM to tell me that his wife's contractions were 20 minutes apart. (Next time, Bry, just stick to the 9AM report unless they're 20 seconds -
Blog / IAP
IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool
it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... the lives of the Blaschkas: how they got an initial 10-year contract to ... talking to the docent, we had a lot of interesting discussion about what it -
Blog / Life after MIT
Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.
of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... the mike, it's also the funniest. As Oscar and Lola grow up and go to -
Blog / About Decisions
Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…
to lab tonight at 7:30 to change the media on my COS cells... and if ... had given lip service to the idea that you could get a research job, if ... expected me to fail out, and you can't let the haters win.) I'd also met lots -
Blog / About Decisions
“what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions
I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... it is). It’s not as if I didn’t want to go to Stanford initially, but ... of the most important factors in their future. It's not stupid to feel -
Blog / How to Human
love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss
the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... it sort of does. and regardless, it makes me feel Old). i also had to -
Blog / How to Human
Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion
at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’re supposed to be working, we’re doing the work. I can figure it out… I think ... what if you aren’t smart enough? What if you fail? What if you weren
