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Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
. Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the ... 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 -
Blog / MIT Life
An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow
How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh -
Blog / Academics & Research
Punting
freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... stands at the end of the boat, drops this stick down to the river bottom ... be standing up at the end of the boat. My knees were shaking! Between -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!
sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic ... Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... , you know (just kidding!)? Just like everything else at MIT, sororities -
Blog / MIT Life
Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.
+/- .5 C at 1000 psi today after three solid days of calibration. Now I can ... deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton -
Blog / IAP
How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies
ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... real science true method of relaxation (source: none). At the bottom of ... -speaking-animal-gods-that-is-at-one-point-also-ruled-by-a-bunch-of -
Blog / Personal Travel
Vertigo My brain hurts.
I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try ... vertigo returned today. I'm at the Conference of Research Experiences for -
Blog / MIT Life
More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?
to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films ... A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live -
Blog / Admissions
Likelihood
differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and ... , including at the only other college I'm aware of that has an admissions ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a -
Blog / About Decisions
Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.
morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either ... warning, the sun suddenly just breaks through out of nowhere and illuminates -
Blog / Events
Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.
Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... of Clay at a certain internet message board at which Sam's Mom may or -
Blog / How to MIT
MIT-ish on being MIT enough
who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.
estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... your (Lulu's?) numbers, since at least half of the Physics majors I ... distribution. Then again, the mere existence of a group at MIT dedicated to -
Blog / MIT Life
It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.
Purification of Green Fluorescent Protein for Bioprocess Applications," and at ... good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to -
Blog / Community Projects
Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.
pulled enough all-nighters to take most of my showers at 4 AM, so this ... For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)
offer. But at the same time, there were downsides. By the end of senior ... might be capable of. So, uh, catch me at my a cappella group's concert on ... I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God ... ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast -
Blog / Blog Projects
8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20
competition Scrutineering portion of the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) began at ... encouragement you provided. Some of the team members at the finish line ... *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a -
Blog / Advice
Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began
class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love you all and thank you for being a part of my time at MIT <3