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Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , to my untrained chemical engineering eyes, simply miracles of urban -
Blog / Academics & Research
UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…
goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super -
Blog / Events
I’m still here. Promise.
-credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel -
Blog / MIT Life
Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.
discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in -
Blog / Challenges
how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away
By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something -
Blog / Academics & Research
How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis
results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering -
Blog / Events
science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!
loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of -
Blog / People & Identities
OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe
, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came -
Blog / Challenges
Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !
writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room -
Blog / Challenges
The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…
In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of -
Blog / Study Abroad
The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors
One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!
people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles -
Blog / Academics & Research
Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.
running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself. This is what got me going: Taking "advantage" of pass/no-record. "No ... . More than not there's some aspect of selfishness and self-validation to -
Blog / Admissions
Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT
and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?
After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well -
Blog / Personal Travel
F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc
_grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I feel like I've experienced both ends of activity levels: doing all the ... tales of how both of these trips came together: 2023: New York, NY and -
Blog / Uncategorized
Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24
and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of ... windy because I was scared that a tornado would come out of nowhere, while -
Blog / Internships & Externships
Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5
During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me -
Blog / How to Human
Strands literal and metaphorical >:)
, I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... dull roar of a hair dryer. I walked into the store with overgrown
