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Blog / Challenges
Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience
's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... artificial things than organic things. this is how i got interested in ... could’ve had to gain experience in programming. It's a pain, but I can -
Blog / Academics & Research
keeping interest a list of things i think are cool
in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.
telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a ... said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it -
Blog / Challenges
I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!
; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... how draining the whole process felt. I know I can’t really equate ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited
sitting there like, “lol Ben I haven’t got in yet so I can’t yet get ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you ... perfectly describe how I felt when I first put foot on campus, but sadly I don -
Blog / Admissions
Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…
impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... who were strong in other areas. I was really just trying to say that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.
how eventful it was....everything was sort of...boring. I woke up early ... adventures in Italy (which I still haven't told you about, man I'm bad at this ... -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…
tends to meander in all directions I’m clueless on how to summarize it. I ... . I can see the people around him. I can feel the heaviness in the air ... page can hold in confidence. I write because I have something to say, if -
Blog / Challenges
How Are You? because it's not just a simple question
. So let me ask you, how are you? How are you really? Because I ... finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want ... sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want -
Blog / MISTI
Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.
, where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... is actually more beautiful, if you can believe it. And Saturday I -
Blog / MIT Life
people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall
, framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT: Round 2
. So cherish it while you can. For me, I don’t anticipate staying in the ... maybe some engineering problems). While I can’t say that I’ve personally ... an around the world experience, but in the end, I just couldn’t stay -
Blog / Academics & Research
A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions
yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the ... , so I end up burning parts so I can cook the meat all the way through ... shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next -
Blog / People & Identities
fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters
skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now. I still do not know Python. I guess I understand how vectors move in ... ; I like how full every day is. I don’t believe in rest. but I wish -
Blog / How to Human
Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…
guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... Physics , I'm struck by how much this place seems like an academic ivory -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…
when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... the closest you can get to living in the Internet," and Ms. Chinea -
Blog / Admissions
Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).
are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I ... comments) as soon as I can. Also, I do expect that next year's freshman class ... , but I will make an announcement one way or the other when I can -
Blog / Classes
a gcal september never really used it until now
things like how hosed i am, scheduling conflicts, or randomly changing my ... like going to the gym or running. as you can see... i need to work on adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the -
Blog / Classes
work expands to fill the space available
other friends in the class, my top advice for picking classes. i love how ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a