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Blog / Personal Projects
10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year
again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work, but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do -
Blog / Academics & Research
Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*
, it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes ... ’t going to attend any of my Monday classes) Sophomore Standing If you ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen -
Blog / Challenges
The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.
overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... again a team of drastically more boys than girls. The first -
Blog / About Decisions
The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.
fact, I would guess that the type of housing MIT offers(students choose ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience
realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of -
Blog / Admissions
What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.
would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered -
Blog / IAP
incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row
again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would -
Blog / MIT Life
I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times
every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play
. And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... are the themes of the play? What kind of couch do I want? Should -
Blog / MIT Life
Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.
dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers
do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... . Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the -
Blog / Academics & Research
How hard is it, really? Let down
had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was -
Blog / Academics & Research
Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.
survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Questions and answers
of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... where you want to be? How much of this was unique to MIT as opposed to ... . It's a bit of a tough one because my goals have changed substantially -
Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4
Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation -
Blog / Miscellaneous
when the world gets too heavy put it on my back
future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly -
Blog / MIT Life
and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!
shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this -
Blog / Events
An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…
my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid -
Blog / Study Abroad
Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites
lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although most of the distribution is done by NGOs. Our first, rather impromptu meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the