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Blog / Challenges
you can care about things revisiting stoicism
personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional ... works. these fields are built around the premise that you can change the -
FAQ / First-year application
Can I defer my enrollment?
If you’re admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT’s first-year class, you will be asked to submit… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.
I’ve been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went… -
Blog / How to Human
I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution
education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want ... can talk about with math, I will happily share all the various things I ... can’t talk about why I like math, it just means that I should be more -
Blog / Miscellaneous
You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West
'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are ... in Silicon Valley. MIT, you can save the world. Kids in college, you can save the world. I'll put my life on this interview right now. It -
Blog / Academics & Research
All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.
as a group it seems we've come to the consensus that all-you-can ... where you can not only create your own dishes, but they also have half ... ate 13 pancakes at all-you-can-eat IHOP. (I had four.) The girls -
Blog / Miscellaneous
in honor of tau the superior circle constant
12 mv^2[/latex] is the kinetic energy [latex]E_k[/latex] possessed by ... ]v[/latex]. [latex]E_s = \frac12 k (\Delta x) ^2[/latex] is the potential energy [latex ... together, we can get the area of the circle! But what’s the area of one of -
Blog / Events
Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works
; white is the sum of all the colors, and all colors can be described by ... = White Cyan + Red = White Magenta + Green = White These can be rearranged ... to talk about... How light works Light can be thought of as a wave -
Blog / Miscellaneous
I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)
crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... accelerator, Robbie Baldwin receives the power to reflect kinetic energy. His -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26
place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to ... out, but luckily, you can always switch jobs and that it is worth it to ... . I became a Campus Ambassador for Monster Energy! I came out as trans -
Blog / MIT Life
living having the time of my life
just had the energy.” “What inspired you to make a pancake 3D printer ... one item per day (that I can’t find until weeks later) and eat whenever ... " align="aligncenter" width="768"] you can never go wrong with soy sauce -
Blog / Classes
IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!
that since I can’t figure out what I want to do with my life, I’m going ... building construction plan, how can the decisions made by the owner and ... like a great big puzzle, and one where I can’t ever see all the pieces at -
Blog / Academics & Research
10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine
microcontrollers. You can never escape those hardy Arduinos! One afternoon, I quickly ... 'atar (dried thyme), refreshing tomatoes and cucumbers and citrus—I can still ... energy. Another afternoon, we got a private tour of the Palestinian Museum -
Blog / Academics & Research
Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*
of the benefits of getting sophomore standing is that you can get this ... this class (you can see a ball rolling down a ramp in mechanics, but you can’t see an electron whizzing around in space in E&M), but it -
Blog / Challenges
Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post
energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... progress, creates a ceiling of satisfaction for working women that they can ... that I can never articulate very well. Sometimes coming to MIT feels a -
Blog / Academics & Research
January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music
brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can ... bookstore and flip through some finance books this weekend, so that I can at ... when working, I feel like I am wasting time. I miss the manic energy of -
Blog / Life after MIT
Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.
wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can ... has a talent for solving problems, and I can't remember a time when he ... spark of energy driven by passion that I've come to see in so many of my -
Blog / How to MIT
Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.
's Reuse-Housing, where people can look for houses or roommates; there's Reuse-Ask, where people can ask for things others might have that they'd be willing to park with; and there's Reuse-Sell, where people can try -
Blog / About Decisions
The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.
online forums, you can't help but wonder at your chances of getting into ... . Accordingly, more and more people believe that money can resolve all problems ... that you can't get into college on your own? One value I hold higher