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Blog / Challenges
Small Victories The view from a month into MIT
, In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... go to. It's now evident how much MIT throws at its students. I'd be ... new opportunities (I'm sure many of you are similar). In the past, I -
Blog / Classes
On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time
based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... , and one chemistry. They're all pretty similar, structurally. In fact, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP
(“Hey, baby, can I be your derivative?”) won't be as successful in the ... Pictured above are some robots from the 6.270 IAP competition. I'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back
in dorms, classes, councils, and recitations all have unique mailing ... during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover -
Blog / Admissions
From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++
So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat
I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal ... about a test that I ended up not being in the right state of mind (let ... I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This -
Blog / Athletics
A sporting chance
Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity athlete in high school (cross country and wrestling), but I had decided not -
Blog / MIT Life
GTL the secret to a successful summer
Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... ://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-amazing-grilled-cheese-sandwich-recipes) would be a good life -
Blog / Life after MIT
I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!
miles in 8 months. How do you do that? RUN A F***ING LOT. No joke, I was ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I -
Blog / MIT Life
Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.
entry, Mitra and I'll probably be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, preparing for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to -
Blog / Athletics
An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.
certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... actually about how I spent my Saturday. I was invited by several of my ... looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition
special things that I would never get to do in America (you've already heard ... in training. In any case, I am rapidly expanding my musical knowledge ... [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for -
Blog / MISTI
[Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate
. Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... happy about my living situation, mostly because I'm in the same apartment -
Blog / MIT Life
Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.
parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... the Midwest or whatever. If I cleared one of the smaller minefields in ... with you, but at this transitional, trans-semester stage in my life, I -
Blog / MIT Life
What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon
't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... vomited in their mouths a little). I miss waking up and looking out and -
Blog / Events
Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!
-day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Feedback
For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What would you tell those who couldn't attend? -
Blog / Academics & Research
They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school
Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... kindergarten! I tried to go in, but got kicked out after 2 seconds. Qin -
Blog / Academics & Research
Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what
. It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in ... . Coding (almost) every day I wrote a 1.8k-word post about how tough ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I