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Blog / About Decisions
Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?
people, each imparting their tidbits of knowledge and advice. I was in your ... . So why, oh why, did I choose MIT? First of all, I lived in Boston for two summers (I'm originally from Maryland) while I was in high school -
Blog / About Decisions
Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?
depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my -
Blog / Classes
i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe
with insightful questions. I would rather enjoy my time at MIT in ... prefer smaller classes, and I liked that Math in Moscow had classes with ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge
examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a solution, I openly annotate my own example sheet for discussion in ... to compensate their education for their GPA. In comparison, I will -
Blog / Academics & Research
Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT
Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... 's just a Q&A session, which I'll skip, in favor of you all asking questions in the comments and I'll get around to answering them (probably -
Blog / Events
Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.
The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... concert. Honestly, freshman year, I wasn't particularly interested in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.
sure they would be worth less in total than this microscope.) I wish I ... five proteins that interact with the protein I'm interested in. I've been ... overexpression in COS cells. I'm currently drug-treating neurons which express my -
Blog / About Decisions
For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.
) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... knows what it will be this year.) What should I do now? Should I send in ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my -
Blog / About Decisions
For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.
) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn -
Blog / MIT Life
The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.
..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog bio. Not only that, but I decided to write a survey. It would be mind -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Finality Just one more week.
:) Nonetheless, I'm currently in Barker - MIT's engineering library. It's right ... love sweatpants. I would wear them 24/7 - except it's not 100% socially acceptable to do that... In any case ~ I wish all of you the best with your -
Blog / MIT Life
Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?
kicked off campus in March. With all the meetings that were scheduled, I ... :30-3:00 I had a biweekly check-in for my communications job with the MIT ... sitting in them. Read: I need to exercise more. Course Road will chew you -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt
MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been ... ’ve climbed each day. I’m calling this dataset “Baby Steps” because of how ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical -
Blog / Academics & Research
Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas
taking and trusting that somehow in the future, I would eventually graduate ... semesters, I would only have to take 3-4 classes to graduate in the spring of ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I -
Blog / IAP
IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!
So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order ... , admit it, that's more money than you've ever seen in person) While there -
Blog / Academics & Research
Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer
much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... . I'll rely on my practice instead of my head. But now, in so many ways ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite -
Blog / CPW
Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming
This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're -
Blog / Personal Travel
Road Trip—sort of.
Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT -
Blog / Events
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC
movie in a room full of fans. The moment the movie started I heard squeals ... the range of emotions this film made me feel, I: physically recoiled in ... week (more of that in a later blogpost). I'm really grateful I got the