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Blog / Academics & Research
Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!
-classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.
Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... some from the Conner 2 holiday dinner. Unfortunately, I can't find the ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests -
Blog / Classes
CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?
relationships, such as how financial and emotional dependencies can form. I ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.
team in high school? Now you got me thinking about the regional and how i ... I'm not sure exactly how the emergency response system works in other ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class -
Blog / MISTI
A Tribute to the people of South Africa
During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my ... journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... , is something I jotted down upon my arrival in Kwazulu-Natal. “It -
Blog / Challenges
sophomore spring there will always be regrets
I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I -
Blog / IAP
Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country
you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... small towns, which you can see in the map above: Ordino, Canillo, La -
Blog / MIT Life
You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!
I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both had pirate hats, lab coats, and light sabers (I know, right?). So, what -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!
. Ever since I stepped foot in the station during CPW, I knew that I wanted ... Zeppelin Hopefully you can see how the name of my show is relevant now! Not ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in -
Blog / MIT Life
A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.
.004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... EC and I walked back to MacGregor, where I pecked at work in my room ... .004 and my UROP code. I spent a lot of time in MacGregor last weekend -
Blog / Academics & Research
making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class
that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without ... and optimistic afterwards. i’ve enrolled in many math and cs and biology ... the first convincing proof i’ve seen that we can actually solve climate -
Blog / How to Human
on body image me in my head, me in the mirror
manhood in my head that I've conformed to all my life, and I wonder how much ... One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... place. Placed in that context, how did it make me feel? Nothing, honestly -
Blog / Challenges
Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare
-signers? How long/short can the lease be? When's the earliest you can move in ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…
- which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... as males tend to do in an affectionate manner. (I tried to reciprocate ... begun! And orientation is about to begin! I'm writing from home, but I can -
Blog / Academics & Research
Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…
interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... tools that will be essential in building a successful startup, and I have ... in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via -
Blog / Admissions
The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…
can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... admissions officers and student bloggers alike, is "How can I get into MIT ... of it involves asking the right questions. Maybe "How can I get into -
Blog / Admissions
The swing of things MIT happenings.
in Course 2 in charge of the 2A department so they can verify that I ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send -
Blog / MIT Life
optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.
, so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for ... -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to ... , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of -
Blog / MIT Life
Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.
refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise ... . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna ... of lack of education have we come!” I read Gorgias in 11th grade, in a