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Blog / About Decisions
All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait
to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do. Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)
-- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the ... semester, a class I profiled here. Last week, Time Magazine announced ... . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture -
Blog / Admissions
The mail, and more
containing the software, or can I send it as an attachment with an email?" It ... all! I've known plenty of people who have done UROPs not in their field ... who I just spent New Years with in Virginia, for example, was a -
Blog / IAP
small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia
Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P
Logs." I love hilariously ridiculous spoof movies in which you can see ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think ... (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.
Classes of 2012 and 2013 (!). 3:31pm: I can't walk more than 10 feet without getting stopped in the halls. It's awesome, but I'm starting to lose my ... Student Welcome -- and I'm happy to see that most people are traveling in -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.
carrying about 6 cans of soda in his coat pockets and instead stumbled home ... mailing list with an email querying, “Anyone have "cool" sunglasses I can ... Last night, I was lying on my mattress somewhere near the precarious -
Blog / Announcements
We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024
tried to do the right thing. I can only say that there are [annotation ... Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting ... to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this -
Blog / How to Human
Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.
MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in ... ; This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably -
Blog / Athletics
Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.
chance to meet over the weekend when I wasn't slaving in lab, passed out on ... research for the past three years in a UROP with Professor Robert "I ... . Alicia and I were sitting in the suite one morning discussing, among other -
Blog / Admissions
Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!
’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact ... classmates. That’s what really showed me that I can see myself at MIT for the ... from Ann '14! When I first found out about “Campus Preview Weekend -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day
is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I ... incredible, at least to me, in the sense that I have literally never seen ... open in coach, and the lounge is not yet fully awake, I suspect. It is my -
Blog / Academics & Research
Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.
so we can use conservation of energy. Everything in orange is energy ... 'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I -
Blog / MIT Life
Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.
deserts we all reconvene in Samarkand on the ancient silk route, where a ... across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for -
Blog / Personal Travel
i ran into someone in vienna today… hi nisha
[annotation note="the dark&stormy is an s-tier drink."].[/annotation] [annotation note="believe it or not, us being in vienna at the same time was completely coincidental."].[/annotation] -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger
Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... 've had an amazing first few weeks here at MIT, and I can't wait to share it ... taped to my door. OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
We, the people
the Senior House dormitory), who snuck in just as the film began. I didn ... As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... , the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT -
Blog / Classes
Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world
, Peru [annotation note="I flew from Santiago, in case anyone was actually ... but somehow I ended up in Russia at a computer vision hackathon. It ... abroad. I was in Pavia, a train ride away from Milan, living with two of my -
Blog / Admissions
Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.
) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... still have them write you a recommendation. They can write in their native