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Blog / Personal Travel
Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment
spirit of vacation, I spent the next four hours sitting in Starbucks ... that visit, I spent a couple hours in a Borders Bookstore near Penn ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met -
Blog / Academics & Research
Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.
coming to MIT, I had never cooked before in my life. Nada. Zip. (okay ... how to cook). I'm fairly sure I caused my mom a great deal of stress ... Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get -
Blog / Extracurriculars
No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.
is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling ... 've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I ... I could come in and tinker with the stretchers a little bit. And thus -
Blog / Challenges
Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!
= awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... So you know how cars sit at stoplights with their all their blinkers ... the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all -
Blog / Admissions
Visualize whirled peas
I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United -
Blog / Hacks
Vespertilio No spoilers here.
try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... 's when I saw it. Everything finally snapped into place. How could I have -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing
something engraved at danger!awesome is insanely simple. I walked in and told ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend loves wooden puzzles, and so I went with a wooden puzzle box: a box -
Blog / IAP
The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)
to how UROP works at MIT, and how I found mine. In about two weeks I ... little bit. In the past semester or so, I've realized that being an MIT ... course numbers: “18.02, 5.112, 7.012, and 8.012.” So I know I'm not in -
Blog / Challenges
starting over and over again
format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often. The reason I like ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... /early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this -
Blog / MIT Life
Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in
college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic -
Blog / Admissions
Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos
philosophy and strategy behind how we communicate to prospective students (i ... projects, how Loren and I started working together (and how we work with the ... hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is -
Blog / MIT Life
Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!
Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... been much more interesting than that in the past week; it's just that I -
Blog / MIT Life
1 day in the life of an MIT student
'15 is in Au Bon Pain right as I'm walking outside from my interview ... the kind of person she is. We discuss how our senior years are going. I ... good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup
complete internships or study abroad in some cases, I spent my first IAP here ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... first classroom is in a decently sized lecture hall, so I spend that time -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures
about that. Gerthy cares about that. I care about that." I blogged in a ... From the article "Engineering changes for the better in Haiti: Local ... . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars -
Blog / Admissions
Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.
weekend. You have no idea how excited I am to meet you all. See you soon! ... Campus Preview Weekend starts TOMORROW! Are you pumped? I know I am! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to -
Blog / MIT Life
A Chapter Closes To open another
knocks.” “Wow!” I replied in joking indignation, but swiveled past him ... Multivariable Calculus exam. I filled in the solutions, turned in the sheets, and ... ’s moving into Alpha Delta Phi this fall, and I’ll remain in Random, while -
Blog / Challenges
Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking
should be doing in January. I worry about how much energy I’ll have next ... 'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... started. Now, it feels more like I'm in a sprint, going through my classes -
Blog / MIT Life
“Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.
forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you ... automatically assume that you're some crazy child genius and an expert in anything