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Blog / MIT Life
Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!
apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of ... among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it -
Blog / Admissions
Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.
Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of -
FAQ / First-year application
How does MIT consider extracurriculars?
realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... see what you did with the options available to you no matter where you -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.
, here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT ... expected attendance of 1,200, Fierce Forever is the largest student drag show in the country. The past five editions of Fierce have earned -
Blog / MISTI
misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice
words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the ... one of the leafier subsets of the city. From the balcony of my room on the tenth floor I have a majestic view of the Bangalore bungalows -
Blog / Admissions
Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•
pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and ... lack of a better term... sketch looking :S Taking the underground transit ... minority dinner and got to meet a bunch of interesting new people! The food -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P
(songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel -
Blog / Blog Projects
[Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things
January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... learn about the cool new ideas that are changing the world. Of course, it ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was -
Blog / Advice
You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues
This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... the hallway, turning around, and seeing people quiet down instead of ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger
dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I ... the suite lounge, one with a phone playing “Chariots of Fire” on full ... a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio -
Blog / Uncategorized
Decisions, Decisions decisions!
psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive ... Fellowship. Part of the application required that I give the name of my ... I hadn't visited them or anything (with the obvious exception of -
Blog / How to Human
In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).
On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact -
Blog / Events
Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!
they are frosh. This is called the conservation of frosh. Since they ... days as a frosh by taking pictures of people building things in the East ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community -
Blog / Challenges
starting over and over again
-up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two ... the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... been struggling to find time for it. At the beginning of every semester I -
Blog / How to Human
a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz
friend, so housing was resolved. then there was the problem of packing everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person ... our group! two of them were coming only for the weekend, though, so we -
Blog / Events
1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute
FPOP, and through Rush, I would meet a good number of the incoming class ... ![/caption] An Evening with Champions The second week of school, I ... . Organized by Harvard undergraduates, this was the 48th rendition of the show -
Blog / People & Identities
Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?
critical facet of the Indian-American experience. In one scene, where Devi is ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about the Common App, so I kind of...spliced up some ideas from my MIT essays -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair
-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... . Let the games begin!! *** Er…I was expecting a fancy cloud of smoke ... however is roughly the size of Seven New Yorks, so extrapolating over the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT
, cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer ... freshman year), none of the good shops are available after midnight. My ... slowly that I had to really simplify the rig, which ended up consisting of