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FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. Translation: You could be in Room 10 -
FAQ / Transfer
Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?
There's no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond the required application. If there are other pieces of information that you feel would add important context to your application, you may submit -
Blog / Challenges
Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things
On September 11, 2001, I had just begun my junior year. I was running ... after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their ... into the World Trade Center," Brian quietly informed me. Only then did I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.
I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance -
Blog / Academics & Research
Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.
's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... . On the lab front, this week I started writing a paper about the project I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the -
Blog / MISTI
The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program
-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program As I write this post, I am sitting in the teacher's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to ... teachers, excellent students, and a beautiful school, I have been smiling for -
Blog / Academics & Research
Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.
about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory Biology 8.02 - Physics II 5.12 - Organic Chemistry I 9.00 - Introduction ... - Graded Undergraduate Research in Course 9 Total: 72 units I'm way more -
Blog / Hacks
some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)
I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... finals and my leaving...) and I haven't been able to resist snapping some ... really warmed my heart at a time when I was quite nervous about my next -
Blog / Life after MIT
Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving
something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes. It wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about -
Blog / Admissions
Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...
I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because -
Blog / Personal Travel
jetsetting i saw a flying pig.
So this weekend I managed to visit two time zones and five airports ... friend, Rob '08, but this weekend, I managed to make it out to Ohio to visit him for his 20th birthday. Before I made it there, I experienced my -
Blog / Miscellaneous
happy lunar new year the year of the tiger
Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio -
Blog / Uncategorized
Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso
This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can finally say I’ve drunk from the firehose and tasted it vicious glory; there -
Blog / Academics & Research
More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.
Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... -hour Burton-Conner desk shift Sunday Night 8. Do German I homework and ... friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the -
Blog / MIT Life
Finally, a free minute
Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got -
Blog / MIT Life
classes are over!!!! i feel so free
very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the ... unpleasant, and there are many thoughts and feelings I have about the end of -
Blog / Challenges
whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive
the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a ... , because it's been such a mood. every morning, i wake up, and i have this vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i -
Blog / Academics & Research
Goodbye, for now
Regular readers may know that I've admired Apple's design ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the -
Blog / Academics & Research
My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409
the magnitude system and optics. I talked more about the class here. One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of