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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything
can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some ... mountains, stars and quiet nights—but I’m trying to build what I can build ... card, digitized it, and printed it out in bulk. Then I cut out heart -
Blog / Admissions
College Admissions and the Public Interest
In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... more than 50 years ago. What I love about CAPI (as it's called) is the honesty and integrity with which B.A.T. wrote, which values I hope (and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"
interest in bioengineering and medicine. I'm reading this for "fun" yes. I ... catch my eye, we'll see if I can make it past page 10. If I'm not hooked ... So with all this free time on my hands (not as much as I originally -
Blog / Academics & Research
Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.
Service Center. In my 'Two Videos' entry from December, I briefly mentioned ... Dubai to Ahmedabad. Half-asleep, I then got in a taxi and drifted in and ... . Half the time, I gave up and broke into giggles, amused by how ridiculous -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend
extensively by Ceri in her excellent post MIT Mini Maker Faire, I won't go into ... , which my friend John P. '17 placed first in. You can view more photos ... to compete in these three hackathons: HackMIT, Hacking Arts, and MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!
engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can ... did not get an in-class demo of this, but it was fairly awesome if I say -
Blog / Admissions
New York, New York
I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I -
Blog / MIT Life
Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...
matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... -year-old-brother) likes to come up here is to play in the Simmons Hall ball pit: (I’ll take what I can get.) Additionally, every once in a while it’s nice to -
Blog / Uncategorized
The Concert / The View
that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... how long I waited to get that spot. It'll be the artist, the date, the ... was pleasantly surprised to be around 4th row in GA pit for 5sos. I -
Blog / Challenges
This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT
available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic -
Blog / Academics & Research
Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!
Did you know that you can't double-major at MIT? Okay, I'm just ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII ... . Personally, I came in with a meager 27 units of credit (and didn't pass out of -
Blog / Blog Projects
Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers
have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met ... .org better. New bloggers! In addition to our new website, I also want to ... I hope you like what we've done with the place. Seven years ago, I -
Blog / Life after MIT
Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations
everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when ... twinkle in his eye. We're both morning people, if I found myself walking up ... of centering humans in all technological endeavors. The only time I -
Blog / Personal Travel
Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…
I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train -
Blog / Admissions
I like to do the jumble sometimes
and beyond. The best advice I can give you for the interview is to be ... early. If you're reading this, what are you waiting for? In other news, I ... action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My -
Blog / Challenges
The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.
Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... a little self control to not literally gasp. I will stress that in my ... in her blog post, discrimination can be pushed forward by other women -
Blog / Academics & Research
Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…
Morgan, my UROP supervisor, is that I can go bother them anytime I want. I ... than grad students, or something (I don't know why; I work half as much as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary -
Blog / Life after MIT
Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.
is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather -
Blog / Events
DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…
First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 dollar investment ever. Coming back to campus last Monday, I jumped