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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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life
MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.
modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT. The honest answer? THE PEOPLE! So I'm going to tell you stories -
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
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 / Academics & Research
Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition
hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2 -
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 -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Snow On working in a winter wonderland.
Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... other people are freezing I'm basking in the comparative mildness of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!
AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... this semester, in which we learn about what's taught at Sloan and how it ... dancing alone in my room in 30-second spurts whenever i wanted, but now i