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Blog / Personal Travel
Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…
Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to ... Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I -
Blog / Challenges
Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…
bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... classes, even though some of my biology recitations were held at night ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Summer School's out for it
of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of ... of sleep, something you'll learn to live on at MIT. 3) It's harder to -
Blog / MIT Life
You know, that intro stuff
still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for -
Blog / Athletics
A sporting chance
frozen for a couple months of the year. So I grabbed the opportunity at MIT ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day
, Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*
UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured -
Blog / Research & Work Abroad
Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic
I was introducing myself at dinner I said I was from Boston and one of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically -
Blog / Events
It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity
available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT. Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 -
Blog / Admissions
New York Times, New York Times
Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... the validity of the test. More on this over the coming year... At this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT
work? 1. Gaze in wonder at the 600+ works of art at the Student Loan Art ... . Select up to 5 of your favorite pieces that you might want to stare at for ... that when I look at it, I can find some form of enjoyment in the visual -
Blog / MISTI
MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.
about. Especially for a car guy. Espresso at 8 am: I'm awake. Sounds of ... sound of an F1 car testing at the nearby Fiorano track. Familiar town ... and goals of our projects and our way of thinking and working at Smart -
Blog / Featured Blogs
A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.
made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post -
Blog / Challenges
difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall
two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at ... of four classes. It was fewer units than I'd taken at any point during ... 'm getting better at being a person, in all the little corners of myself, and -
Blog / Travel
spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen
of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... weather. I bought a math textbook and a book of french poetry at a used ... to NYC to spend a couple of days at our respective homes. [carousel -
Blog / Events
(Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it
. It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue ... according to one of the workers at OSG, that means I tried really, really hard ... for employee morale here at admissions. I can sort of see what he -
Blog / Miscellaneous
My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.
orders of magnitude. You're like an exa, and I'm at a centi." What's more ... English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?
worried about) sort of had ideas of studying chemistry at first, but then ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was ... around and looked at plants all day, read a lot of books. basically I loved
