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another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬
day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural ... -seasoned piece of avocado toast with one. 9:32 AM I start work. My UROP is data ... -the-fuck-out-of-my-house-and-find-a-UROP frenzy. I really like the work -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Nibble of Music
coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel ... . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I -
Blog / Admissions
Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?
Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…
, Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center
. Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... on a skateboard, doing an ollie out of a giant fire behind him I -
Blog / Admissions
The swing of things MIT happenings.
projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed ... of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the ... freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it -
Blog / Academics & Research
gallery of my notes note taking progression
thoughts for future reference. Pages and pages of loose leaf college ruled paper accumulated as paper globs at the bottom of my backpack. I bought ... consistently, so even then I remained unorganized. Given the pace of high school -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup
, which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab -
Blog / Events
A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.
As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of ... -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a -
Blog / How to Human
Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5
It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a -
Blog / MIT Life
The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...
errant shopping cart from the grasp of its adopted siblings, and checked ... its stores. Sad for them, of course, and also sad for this poor ... have yearned for the joys of cart-based transportation. I was never bold -
Blog / Advice
Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking
lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world -
Blog / How to Human
Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness
a few aspects of taking care of yourself we wish we had learned two years ago. MIT has its times of incredible stress and it's during those times that these tips are most crucial. Taking care of yourself is -
Blog / About Decisions
Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.
probably one of the happiest people on the face of the earth. Unfortunately ... reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... MIT had made a mistake or was admitting me on the basis of something -
Blog / Admissions
Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.
at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship ... instead of dancing. 2. Another anonymous commenter asked, Hi! I am thinking -
Blog / How to Human
The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits
-time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... juggling classes, DormCon, and other dorm obligations, I had a fair amount of -
Blog / About Decisions
The Art of Waiting how to burn some time
elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... music when you want an in-between: Switched on Pop (one of my favorite -
Blog / MISTI
Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.
DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah -
Blog / Admissions
End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.
previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... in Davis Square, 4 short subway stops north of MIT's campus. They get