Name: Mollie Burgoon
Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town near Columbus)
Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9)
What's next: Entering the Biological and Biomedical
On Selection Day 8 (Thursday), I wore a skinny tie, and worked with Mari and Prof. Patrick Henry Winston. Winston is what we at MIT call a "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was
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Concourse "is a small learning community that offers an innovative ... traditional first-year curriculum." The GIRs that are offered in Concourse meet ... offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements.
Terrascope is a bit
the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you just get stronger”. i think…
one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research organization. i got involved with 0xparc because it’s…
tw: mentions of substance abuse, various diseases, death i have been much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course there are many reasons for…
spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as…
last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in…
i hate when people ghost me, especially over text or email. not when it happens once or twice, or when they have good reasons for doing it, like if they’re…
Right before an exam at MIT, I usually spend ten minutes walking down Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of times, it’s…
A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory, accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this workaround.…
6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the…
Warning: Before reading this post, be aware that it contains extremely strong language. It was the only way I could write it honestly, the only way I could bring words…