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Blog / How to Human
Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior
you’re wrong, even in the face of undeniable evidence. You can always ... How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... in class; everyone around you will think you’re stupid for not -
Blog / Uncategorized
time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond
: I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of ... ] twice a week? Of course I am. I’ve been in 8.01 (Physics: Classical -
Blog / Admissions
On Greatness
: "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... best you can be at it. Why? Because if you do this, greatness in some -
Blog / About Decisions
to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love
Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of -
Blog / How to Human
The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer
. This semester, having learned from my freshman year mistakes, I worked in ... need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I ... figure out what to do. I told them how I understood the material and how to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo
I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... that, because in real life we all want to be cool. Note also that I am ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at -
Blog / Academics & Research
Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.
months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found -
Blog / Admissions
November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.
it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can ... regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.
interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... 'm starting early so I can have time to make my decision and figure out a number of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.
other college in the country, right?". A few months ago I was ... . "Wow, I can't even imagine what that's like," I said. I realized ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning -
Blog / MIT Life
Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor
again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.
of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... culture really small pieces of liver tissue in a scaffold that can be -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.
how nice ink can be. Now that I've proudly proclaimed one of the ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... you have a smartphone? Understand that I didn't have a smartphone in -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog
you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The ... the artist whose design I choose, *and* send you some MIT memorabilia in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.
test when the orientation planners demand), and in doing so I can ... thing I identify with when I think about who I am and how I want to be portrayed. "MIT student?" But Anthony is so much more than that. So how do I -
Blog / Challenges
zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going
thrown in whole, peel and all. Overall, I know how I feel—frankly, bad ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship
. I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT -
Blog / Athletics
N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.
; M.I.T. Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix By BILL FINLEY ... scorer in M.I.T. history with more than 2,000 career points. He scored 32 ... student at M.I.T., particularly in his physics courses. "Some of these kids -
Blog / MIT Life
I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!
’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... bus driving through Boston. I’m not kidding- it was early in the morning ... Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, but maybe I’ll save it for later, since I realize