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International Selection Day 1
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the -
Blog / Admissions
Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.
year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals
='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this
that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent -
Blog / MIT Life
Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans
. This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Español Foreign Languages at MIT
spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704 -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up
the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!
Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly -
Blog / MIT Life
Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…
DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by -
Blog / Academics & Research
Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache
little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they -
Blog / How to Human
mit made me rational on decision-making
dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good -
Blog / MIT Life
Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…
took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.
happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... representation of student life, providing prospective students and applicants with -
Blog / Miscellaneous
MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus
At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D
's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about glassblowing, I'll include some explanations of technical terms too. (And if you -
Blog / Miscellaneous
gratitude happy thanksgiving
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... all the dimensions of rage, or resentment, or joy, or grief, but -
Blog / Classes
On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time
's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part
